I didn’t really feel like troubleshooting between Firefox and IE, so I decided to load up Firefox and use it for the remainder of the evening. 

I was up around 3:00am this morning doing stuff around the house (I’m a total night owl), and I just happened to hear the famous logout.wav coming from my PC.  Windows was apparently shutting down to install updates.  What’s weird is that I had just gone to Windows Update last night (around 7 or 8pm) and loaded all the critical and optional updates for my PC.  Did Microsoft release another update within 7 hours?

I got to my PC this morning and attempted to load Google Reader using IE.  Voila!  Everything is loading just fine, and there are no deaded lock-ups like I was experiencing last night.  But, I don’t see any updates that were installed outside of the ones that I installed manually the previous evening.  Strange…. was this a covert operation?