Luckily the IT guy at the wife's job told her that I wasn't responsible for goofing up her VPN connection. I'm pretty sure it was the security patch update, but why fight it. Plenty of other people have had the same problem and "they are working on it." But just as I'm escaping the dog house, the wife walks into the room at the point that I blindly clicked a link to
THIS website, which probably wasn't the best thing to have her catch me visiting.