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Re: MSIE may download and run progams automatically

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Fri Dec 14 19:49:11 2001

Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:37:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:41:09 +0200 (EET) Jouko Pynnonen <jouko@solutions.fi> wrote:
> The company was informed about the new variation on
> November 27th and started working on a patch to correct the flaw. The
> patch is now out and downloadable on Microsoft's site at
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-058.asp

note that this patch does NOT show up if you click on "Windows Update" in
the Start menu; you must go to the above URL to get to the patch.

users who treat Windows Update as their method for verifying the state of
their system may be in for a suprise.

richard
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Richard Welty
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