General Discussion - I.E. Security Update

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I.E. Security Update

Spid

2004-12-02, 4:27 pm

In case you are one of the lucky ones who gets to test, push out, and keep track of MS security updates. Here's another one for I.E. (released 12/1). It may or may not apply to your environment/client base.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/se...n/MS04-040.mspx

freak

2004-12-02, 11:45 pm

Funny: I get to thank you twice for this post

sandy7000

2004-12-03, 1:45 pm

Spid, that's exactly the IE6 update that's crashing my mbr: KB889293. It downloaded this morning. I installed it on XP. Had to use LKGC to keep it from rebooting again & again.

I had just come on line to look into this.

I have some little hooligan bugs dinking with my sys. That's why I'm dl'ing SP 2 piecemeal...easier to troubleshoot.

It seems that's the biggest issue w/ SP 2. If it crashes your sys, you don't know which update is doing it.

sandy7000

2004-12-03, 8:40 pm

BTW, does anyone know how to work backwards off an update? It usually just states "a vulnerability".

For example; whether KB889293 addresses Bophra, etc.

If I could find out which bugs were exploiting the vulnerability, I could work backwards to find out which files were affected. A google search brings up nothing specific. Searching via running .exes & .dlls isn't working either. A search via a date files started being modified is also too non-specific.

The AV, Spybot & AdAware have been sidelined, but not disabled, so they're not getting a grip on the bug.

I do definately have something as the activity shows it.

I'll keep searching.

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