Re: FTP upload problem solved

Removing Updates like that has a new twist. You open Add/Remove, and check the checkbox at the top for "Show Updates', then
highlight the update, and 'remove'

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Mark L. Ferguson
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"Bill Falls" <billfalls@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:vXGje.584$gl1.578@xxxxxxxxxxx
>I was one of many here whose ftp uploads suddenly stopped working when Windows Update installed a number of Windows XP SP2 updates
>in late April. With help from Microsoft's e-mail tech support I finally isolated and blocked the offending update, KB893066. It's
>described in the following article:
>
> MS05-019: Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP could allow remote code execution and denial of service
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893066
>
> The short version of the solution that worked for my PC:
>
> 1. Do a system restore to (or before) the restore point set when these updates were installed. FTP uploads work again.
>
> 2. (quoting from the last of many e-mails from Microsoft tech support)
> Please access Windows Update via the following link:
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
>
> After scanning the system, please select Custom Install. In the list of
> updates, uncheck the check box before Security Update for Windows XP
> (KB893066) and check "Hide this update". (end quote)
>
> 3. Install the other updates if you wish and make sure that ftp uploads still work. They had me test them one by one - that's
> how I identified the culprit - but with luck your problem matches mine and the above will solve it more quickly.
>
> Bill Falls <billfalls@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Washington, DC


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