Good to have the link. Dare I try it? This *thing* here is about to blow up (wish I could find some music somewhere:) .... but it sure could not hurt, I guess(?) Arlene In a message dated 9/29/2006 9:24:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Ekhart.GEORGI@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: Hi Tonia > I have patched all my pc for this bug. For myWin 98SE system, I downloaded > the third party patch and it works just fine. Which one? The one i posted or the one at ZERT? I haven't compared them yet, but i'm pretty sure they aren't the same. > For Win XP you need to go to > Microsoft's technet security site to download the patch. > > Before patching, I did the test as mentioned in Ekhart's email and of course > IE crashed. After the patch it didn't. I could load that page showing two > rectangles with a red center. Win 98 and ME users can get this patch here. > http://isotf.org/zert/ Great! Looks like i was successful in convincing them to provide it :-) I've been corresponding back and forth with ZERT's operations manger about this and other improvements to their wonderful service, and i just sent him a new email yesterday, but you beat him to it in telling me the good news. > For more info and other work-around visit this site: > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2020256,00.asp That's the same unregister workaround i posted. As indicated there, the javascript one has meanwhile been shown to be ineffective. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.