KB942615 Cumulative Security Update for IE - Post Install Issue

I saw the IE6 "Crash?Hang/Send MS a Report" problem occasionally even before
the latest update. The last time I did any XP SP2 critical updates was May
2007. The Regedit seems to have worked, I have only had one incident after
it.

Rich


"Christopher Muto" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "S.Lewis" <> wrote in message
> news:LLPaj.46836$. ..
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>> "Colin Wilson" < o.uk>
>> wrote in message news: t...
>>>> a update to ie6 was released today(?) that purports to fix the problem
>>>> with
>>>> ie6 crashing after the last ie6 update...
>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946627
>>>
>>> Do you need IE to be working to download it though ? :-}
>>
>>
>> That would be, "yes". heh
>
> the problem solves an intermittent issue with ie that was the result of a
> prior patch. i don't know of anyone that had ie completely stop working,
> just that ie would randomly crash and yet work on the same site that it
> failed on when tried again. this update appeared as an automatic update
> that wasn't pushed out on 'patch tuesday'... so they seem to have
> acknowledged their blunder by providing a patch for it relatively quickly.
> not that you can really feel good about the fact that they produced a
> patch that screwed up otherwise working products in the first place... i
> wonder how many people ended up 'upgrading' to ie7 (their intention?)
> because of this, and how many people just installed firefox.
>

"Christopher Muto" wrote:
> the problem solves an intermittent issue with ie that was the result of a
> prior patch. i don't know of anyone that had ie completely stop working, just
> that ie would randomly crash and yet work on the same site that it failed on
> when tried again....


For my machine, IE v.6 crashed *every time* that I went to
mail.Yahoo.com . Since I have Visual Studio (2005) installed,
Visual Studio asked if I wanted to debug upon every crash of IE.
It crashed on other sites, too - some always, some intermittently.
It was a very persistent and prominent feature of IE until I backed
out the patch. I'm amazed that it got past Microsoft testing.

*TimDaniels*

MS released a patch for the patch yesterday.
http://bink.nu/news/ie6-patch-for-th...-winxpsp2.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946627


"Timothy Daniels" <> wrote in message
news:476cb90a$0$4985$...
> "Christopher Muto" wrote:
>> the problem solves an intermittent issue with ie that was the result of a
>> prior patch. i don't know of anyone that had ie completely stop working,
>> just that ie would randomly crash and yet work on the same site that it
>> failed on when tried again....
>
>
> For my machine, IE v.6 crashed *every time* that I went to
> mail.Yahoo.com . Since I have Visual Studio (2005) installed,
> Visual Studio asked if I wanted to debug upon every crash of IE.
> It crashed on other sites, too - some always, some intermittently.
> It was a very persistent and prominent feature of IE until I backed
> out the patch. I'm amazed that it got past Microsoft testing.
>
> *TimDaniels*
>

"Gummy Mummy" wrote:
> MS released a patch for the patch yesterday.
> http://bink.nu/news/ie6-patch-for-th...-winxpsp2.aspx
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946627


Thanks. And... I'll wait a couple weeks for MS Update to come
up with the patch for the original problem that incorporates the "fix".
Patches to patches, some of which have to be reversed, can turn into
Gummy Balls in my experience.

*TimDaniels*

Gummy Mummy wrote:
> MS released a patch for the patch yesterday.
> http://bink.nu/news/ie6-patch-for-th...-winxpsp2.aspx
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946627
>
>
> "Timothy Daniels" <> wrote in message
> news:476cb90a$0$4985$...
>> "Christopher Muto" wrote:
>>> the problem solves an intermittent issue with ie that was the result of a
>>> prior patch. i don't know of anyone that had ie completely stop working,
>>> just that ie would randomly crash and yet work on the same site that it
>>> failed on when tried again....
>>
>> For my machine, IE v.6 crashed *every time* that I went to
>> mail.Yahoo.com . Since I have Visual Studio (2005) installed,
>> Visual Studio asked if I wanted to debug upon every crash of IE.
>> It crashed on other sites, too - some always, some intermittently.
>> It was a very persistent and prominent feature of IE until I backed
>> out the patch. I'm amazed that it got past Microsoft testing.
>>
>> *TimDaniels*
>>
>
>
Yeah, it came through on WSUS Thursday night....

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services