I have now confirmed, at my expense, that Windows security updates DO destroy data. I wrote about this before and it happened again.
How? The update process restarts your system without your consent. You come back from a cup of coffee and there is the BIOS login. Your XP machine has rebooted. Word has NOT created backups of your latest edits. The notes you had typed in a Notepad document are NOT saved unless you hit "Save" before you went for coffee.
So, the lesson here is an old one: Save everything before you leave your machine unattended. Sound advice that I should have been heeding. But really? In this day and age shouldn't we be able to trust our OS not to screw with our work?
About the only good news is that the latest version of Firefox DOES remember all of the pages you were looking at before XP closed it down.
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