Disaster after installation of Vista updates

I have Vista Home Premium.  Thursday night, that prompted, I installed 7 new updates. KB971468, 977165, 905866, 975560, 974145 978262 and 978251.
After restarting my laptop was totally different.  My office had lost a lot of icons, the background has been changed, the feel is different (not better!) and all links between my programs and document, photo, music, e-mail, Favorites etc. files have disappeared, along with some of my email account profiles.
Since the incident, it took me several hours to restore links between programs (who acted as if they had never been used before) and my files, restore all my preferences personally chosen, the default values and options and rebuild some of my e-mail account information, which had also been lost.  My office always behaves not as I'm used to with my toolbar quick launch now appearing to the right rather than the left at the bottom of the screen and after completely losing, without any sign of being able to recover, the button that clears all back on the desktop.  Also, I seem to have lost a long list of iTunes playlists.

 
I am now in trepidation each time I turn on my laptop, as it now does not always connects correctly to each time, sometimes having to be restarted to get in.  The first attempt to connect yesterday was greeted with the message "the user profile Service has no logon.  User profile cannot be loaded.  After re-booting, the opening of session acted properly.
 
In the 2 years I've owned my Acer laptop it has been totally reliable, until the installation of these updates.  I certainly am now very reluctant to install more Windows updates (currently 2 waiting there) until I know what caused my problems.   I rely on my laptop so that away from home for the operation of bank accounts and investment, as well as to stay in touch with many people by e-mail, so that the present situation causes me considerable problems.

Does anyone know why this happened, please?

What application or antivirus security suite is installed and your current subscription?  What anti-spyware (other than Defender) applications?  What third-party firewall (if applicable)?

A (another) Norton or McAfee application has already been installed on the computer (for example, a free trial version which is preinstalled when you bought it)?

Backdoor.Tidserv [AKA Win32/Alureon] and MS10-015

Backdoor.Tidserv did a very good job in this sense, especially with the latest version (TDL3), which uses an advanced rootkit technology to hide its presence on a system by infecting one of the kernel low-level drivers and then cover his tracks. While the rootkit is active there is no easy way to detect the infection, and because he's so deeply in the core, most of the users can't see something wrong in the system... Even worse, because the infected driver is essential for the system boot, Windows will not start in Mode safe either [after installing MS10-015 on a machine infected].

http://www.Symantec.com/connect/blogs/Tidserv-and-MS10-015

TDSS rootkit silently owns the net

TDSS rootkit 3rd variant is the last member of the Tdss rootkit family that is spreading quickly all over the world. While a number of rootkits is just developed as a proof of concept, this is not the case. TDSS rootkit is well known corporate antivirus because of his goal to get full control over the infected computers and to use them as zombies for its botnet.

During these years, that he has always shown a team of skilled people behind it, which always applied advanced techniques often able to bypass antirootkit software. In fact, this last Variant can be easily named as the stealth rootkit in the wild.

This infection is having all the best of MBR rootkit, the best of the Rustock.C and the experience of the old Tdss variants. The result is an infection that spreads quickly on the Internet and it is without being detected by almost all security software and 3rd party anti rootkit software.

.. [20 Nov-09] terms no antirootkit is able to bypass disk filtering technical used by Tdss rootkit but, even if it were possible, this rootkit could not be detected by file size cross check because the size of infected files and original file are exactly the same.

http://www.prevx.com/blog/139/TDSS-rootkit-silently-owns-the-net.html

~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

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