From http://briansbuzz.com/w/030904/

IE security patch breaks ASP.NET on XP

By Brian Livingston

This isn't the first time that a Microsoft patch has needed a patch. And it 
won't be the last time, either. Fortunately, it's not the most horrible or 
widespread "son-of-a-patch" I've ever seen. But it affects enough people 
that you may want to listen up.

I reported in the August 21 issue of Brian's Buzz that Microsoft had 
released two new fixes that I strongly recommended you install. One update 
corrects a security flaw in Internet Explorer 5 and 6, while the other 
closes a hole in Windows Me, 2000, and XP. (This particular report was in 
the newsletter's paid version.) The downloads are MS03-032 / 822925 and 
MS03-033 / 823718, respectively.

Warnings about these two updates were drowned out by the wailing and 
gnashing of teeth caused by the Blaster worm, the SoBig virus, and other 
highly publicized nightmares last month. But I want to emphasize to you the 
importance of installing the latest two fixes. The IE hole is rated 
"critical" by Microsoft, and the other flaw - while merely rated 
"important" - demands your attention because it affects so many versions of 
Windows.

Unfortunately, installing the IE patch (i.e., MS03-032) wipes out some 
flavors of Microsoft's ASP.NET environment running on Windows XP 
Professional. If this problem affects you, any processes that touch ASP.NET 
applications on Internet Information Server running locally on an XP Pro 
machine fail with the message, "Server Application Unavailable."

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