That's funny. I have never used a firewall and I don't do all the M$ security updates.
Last week I was doing some updates from M$ and this is after I worked on Installing for three hours.

When I was ready to do the update M$ had a update for my video card. Did the video card update with some other updates and on restart I couldn't get my video card to show anything on the screen but a msg saying wrong something for this card or wrong resolution or something like that.

I proceeded to try to get my resolution up or down with no luck. I went into safe mode and tried this. I rolled back the driver and everything was back to normal.

So M$, don't tell me what I need because I don't need a headache. You killed my fine installation in 5 minutes after three hours of work, Chimps.