I usually try to mimic the ideology of "If you’re not living on the
edge, you’re taking up too much space" while our architects are mostly
like "If there is no SP1 yet, no way it's going to production"
so you can see the difference of opinion here.
Recently in order to follow the cutting edge philosophy, I used Windows
update to download the December 2005
security updates and started having all kinds of issues. The
fixes were for
- File Download Dialog Box
Manipulation Vulnerability - CAN-2005-2829
- HTTPS Proxy Vulnerability - CAN-2005-2830
- COM Object Instantiation
Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CAN-2005-2831
- Mismatched Document Object
Model Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CAN-2005-1790
But it ended up causing
- Frequent IE hang ups
- A zillion IE windows will
open up and won't go away unless you close them via task manager. - Default browser change to
firefox will cause IE to redirect all requests to open FF.
And as defined on google
groups
- Opening an Internet shortcut
from Windows Explorer opens a blank IE window, which then hangs - typing a URL in the
"Start -> Run" dialog box opens a blank IE window, which then
hangs - Clicking the "More
Information" link in the Windows Error Reporting dialog opens a blank
IE window, which then hangs. - Typing a URL in the IE
address bar opens that URL in a new window. - Opening an Internet shortcut
from within IE either opens the link in a new window, or causes IE to
hang. - Right-clicking on a link and
choosing "Open in new window" results in two new windows, one
with the link and one blank.
As well as in Microsoft IE
Blog
- Opening link from Outlook
give blank page with popup-error and second page with correct info. - Typing URL in address bar
opens at least one new, blank page (sometimes more) with popup-error and
another new page which loads the URL requested.
So, what fixed it? In my case a registry key change since I was running IE 7
beta 1 side by side.
Richard
All of the problems I was seeing were due to a registry key created by running
IE7 Beta 1 in side-by-side mode. Deleting the registry key has resolved all of
the issues.
IE
December Security Update – addressing scattered reports of odd browser behavior
So did I learn the lesson? nah.... Life is good at the edge.
