Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software!

From: Geoff Shively (gshivelyat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 22:58:31 PDT

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What classic MS, their newest critical alert dealing with the Gopher Root
Vulnerability discussed on Security Focus last week
[http://online.securityfocus.com/news/464] seems to break windows media
player.

Is there any validity to this- and, does their fix work?

More info on the microsoft critical alert:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/
bulletin/MS02-027.asp
More info on the breakage: http://www.pivx.com/workaround_fail.html

-masqitz

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