Actualy the 1 KB update has two purposes. The first one is to bind MSN
messenger into the MSN explorer so that it must communicated directly through
the internal Internet Explorer proxies, thereby closing direct contact that
could cause security holes.
The second is to tie MSN Explorer into the startup process of windows. MSN
messenger module #281 will always start with windows. I don't know why but it
does, so MSN Explorer could have assumed that it was supposed to start too.
Th-th-th-thats! all folks!!
Rigel
--- Peter Kupfer OOo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Justin Clift wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just a quick rant, in the hopes it stops someone else from getting
> > caught by this lousy Microsoft tactic.
> >
> > I have *no* Microsoft software on this workstation at all apart from
> > Windows, as a way of keeping the workstation stable (and it's been ok).
> >
> > I've just run "Windows Update" on my Windows XP SP1 workstation here. It
> > identified a 1KB "Security fix" that needed to be installed on this
> > workstation with a title along the lines of "Security fix for MSN
> > Messenger".
> >
> > Now, in keeping with the policy of "NO Microsoft software" on this
> > workstation, I don't have MSN Messenger on it. However dumb this was in
> > hindsight, I figured there must be some dll or other library from it on
> > the system that needed updating, so I allowed that to continue.
> >
> > Long story short, after the "Windows Update" completed, I now have a
> > full version of MSN "Explorer" installed on my workstation (that's a bit
> > bigger than the 1KB download they said!), it adds itself to the windows
> > registry startup area in the process so it's always on (Spybot Search
> > and Destroy stopped asked me if I wanted that stopped fortunately), and
> > there is no mention of it in Add/Remove programs, so technically it's
> > not a removable package.
> >
> > Hows _that_ for sleazy, arse-ways tactics from Microsoft? Anyone got
> > connections to the EU/EC people about that "monopolist" case being pursued?
> >
> > (Yes, I'm really pissed off)
> >
> > Regards and best wishes,
> >
> > Justin Clift
> >
> I don't suppose you have any system restore points set you could go back to?
>
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