Hello,
This has caused massive issues, the articles that I wrote (at The TechCookbook) to fix these corruptions have had a huge amount of views since making them. Between both articles there have been over 5,500 views,
this is huge for my site. Most days it would average on 100-150 unique visitors, yesterday it got to 1,055! Not to mention all the users I have had to assist repairing this corruption here and at Sysnative forums:
http://www.sysnative.com/forums/windows-update/
The thing is Windows Updates are not released corrupt, the files inside the KBxxxx.msu have had a sanity check to make sure they are correct, in actual fact the installer will not run if a corrupt
file is inside the WU file. If you ever look inside a Windows Update MSU file you will see a file called
_manifest_.cix.xml, this file contains all the SHA1 hashes of the files within the installer, this is used to make sure no files are corrupt or tampered.
Now something must be going wrong after the files have been installed onto these users computers, as if they were corrupt inside the update the install would not of processed. I wish I could tell
you how this is happening, but I have not been able to trigger it my self.