Re: Security Update for Windows Messenger (KB887472)

From: scott0100 (scott0100_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/09/05

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    I was a bit curious as well but when GOOGLE and MS didn't return any
    results for the KB#, I had to know. I installed it just and as with
    other cases, it rebooted without any choice.

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1dcc9628-e2d0-496f-b4f2-3afefa0a0156&displaylang=en

    I found this link to MS with little more info than what is already
    avaliable, but at least they aknowledge it. It must have been a bad
    risk for MS to take the service down yesterday and require the update
    in order to sign into MSN.

    --Scott

    Mimo169 wrote:
    > I installed this update on my computer today when it popped up. My
    > computer rebooted on its own WITHOUT WARNING. When I looked in my
    > Add/Remove Programs, I saw something REALLY WEIRD!
    >
    > There is like a ten page long item in the middle of all my programs.
    > It has no text.. just some black vertical lines... and no button to
    > click remove!?!
    >
    > I have never seen this before, but I'm scared I've installed some
    kind
    > of virus since I have not been able to find any information about
    this
    > update on Microsoft.com.
    >
    > Can anyone shed some light on this??
    >
    > Thanks
    > -Alex
    >
    > Code Slinger wrote:
    > > Doesn't anyone find that just a bit odd? You click on the "What's
    > New" button
    > > and you get a "page not found" error. You search all of Microsoft's
    > website,
    > > the XP website and the Messenger website and there's not a single
    hit
    > for
    > > KB887472, the alledged hotfix. Given the presumed flood of support
    > calls
    > > about this and the putative severity (since it's required to login
    to
    > the
    > > server), isn't it strange that Microsoft doesn't even put a short
    > note on the
    > > Messenger home page to verify the validity of the update? If
    > Messenger was
    > > compromised by hackers to download attack software, this is exactly
    > what it
    > > would look like -- a insistent demand to download and install right
    > now with
    > > no verification possible.
    > >
    > >
    > > "Pavel" wrote:
    > >
    > > > I think you should. I did. However i didn't find any information
    > regarding
    > > > KB887472 on the Microsoft's website. Now my WM is 4.7.3001 and is
    > still
    > > > working :-)

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