Re: The update is a downgrade!

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MAP wrote:

Rick Altman wrote:
I have a client who allowed Windows Update to provide the update over
the weekend, and ever since, she has experienced the following three
symptoms:

- Cannot browse with IE by manually entering a URL. IE hangs.

- Cannot navigate her hard drive from Save As in any Office product
or during an Insert File operation in Outlook. System hangs


We traced a 100% correlation to the presence of verclsid.exe running
as a process. At times, there were more than one running. Removing
the process fixed the problem, but only until the next time that one
of those operations was attempted, at which point verclsid was
replanted in memory.

My fix was to simply delete the file from her SYSTEM32 folder -- a
solution that I am not altogether comfortable with, despite her
repeated claims of my being a miracle worker.

I'd like to see some discussion about this. What is the intended
purpose of this process and I wonder why the behavior my client's
Vaio desktop was so counter to that intention. And I wonder if there
is an implication to my quick fix...





Rick A.
Pleasanton CA

Uninstall hotfix KB908531 and manualy download the "revised" version
of it, or as I call it "the fix for the fix"
V2 of KB908531
Version 2 of this update can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=392C2F1B-AA24-48E5-
8D5B-EA56341DB936&displaylang=en

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/d/c/5dc567bf-cd78-46f2-a714-7c3d7f8c66a0/WindowsXP-KB908531-v2-x86-ENU.exe
is the direct download link to Version 2 of the KB908531 patch,
otherwise know as the patch to patch the patch that closes the
vulnerability in Windows Explorer that could allow remote code
execution. Version 2 is probably easier to spit out though. ;-)

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And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."


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