Re: IE and Outlook Express flashing file dialog box

One more little tidbit. Did some more searching--now that I have a better
idea what I'm looking for--and quite a few others have reported this issue,
as well as others. One of the issues that the KB905915 patch is supposed to
fix is a "File Download Dialog Box Manipulation Vulnerability" and that's
the one that is causing the problem in Outlook Express (and in IE.)


"Sir Timbit" <sir_timbit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Holy cow! Just Googled "kb905915" and "bugs" and there are a lot more
issues with that patch than just this OE flashing behavior.

I tried your suggestion for moving the mouse to the topmost portion of the
OE window and that didn't work for me, or our other workplace computers
and laptops. But after a few seconds, I could click on another open app in
the taskbar. When I Alt-Tabbed back to OE, then it would be OK.

Sir Timbit
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"Sir Timbit" <sir_timbit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Absolutely....If I recall, that was a pretty big patch. I ran mine on a
test PC, but I wouldn't uninstall the patch on a work computer.

Still, hopefully Microsoft will fix this glitch one day, but I'm not
holding my breath.

Sir Timbit
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"Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When it happens (and it does happen), I find that just moving the mouse
to the topmost portion of the Outlook Express window stops the blinking
of that box within a second or two. Much faster than opening Task
Manager and I would not recommend that anyone remove the Security update
in KB 905915 just because of that problem.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"Sir Timbit" <sir_timbit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I found the culprit. It was KB905915, released 12/13/2005.
"Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows XP"

OE and IE worked fine with all previously released patches. Once I
installed that one, the flashing started.

Sir Timbit
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