Microsoft has urged users to remove a buggy update as it yanked download links to the offending patch, after reports emerged it caused the dreaded blue screen of death.

The guilty patch run addressed 40 bugs across Internet Explorer and Windows 7 and Win 8 Pro other than Starter and Home Basic.

Altogether three updates were pulled for download from the Microsoft website.

The bad patch triggered crashes with a “x50 Stop error message (bugcheck)” after any of four updates (KB2982791 KB2970228 KB2975719 or KB2975331) were installed.

Don’t worry though if you use our Patch Management Solution as we have already Approved the Patches to be uninstalled.