Klarinet Archive - Posting 001355.txt from 1998/07

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Please read - E-Mail security hole - I checked personally
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 23:18:46 -0400

I know, I know, you don't work at Microsoft, so I'll try once more here and
then I'll move my confusion over to their support area. I tried both of your
suggestions and they DO get me the IE40 update pages, and downloading OE
(from scratch - not a patch) IS an option, but there's nothing about a new
security patch to be found. I know it exists - I heard about it on news
radio before your original post came through. Has anyone else downloaded
this for OE running under Win95? Is it possible this is a Win98 issue,
either because OE relates differently to it or because Win98 includes a
newer release of OE that isn't available to the rest of us and that, as a
result, the patch is only available as a Win98 update? Parenthetically,
Microsoft doesn't provide a search engine for its site - you just have to
follow the links until the blind alley you're in becomes evident.

Thanks for any other information.

Karl Krelove

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Please read - E-Mail security hole - I checked personally

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>From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
>To: klarinet@-----.org>
>Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 10:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [kl] Please read - E-Mail security hole - I checked personally
>
>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
>>To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
>>Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:38 PM
>>Subject: [kl] Please read - E-Mail security hole - I checked personally
>>
>>
>>>It was reported in my newspaper today that there is a bug in Netscape,
>>>Outlook Express, and Outlook 98 that would allow an e-mail message to
>>>possibly corrupt your system. ...
>>>Microsoft has put a patch in place for Outlook Express at
>>>http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/default.htm?page=productupdates
>>>
>>Mark, why am I not finding a patch at the page that comes up when I click
>>this address? I get immediately shuffled off to
>>http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/x86/w98/en/thanksstart.htm and from
>there
>>can only follow links to general Win98 update pages. Following the links,
I
>>wasn't able to find anything about a security patch for Outlook Express.
>>Since I haven't switched over from Win95, I can't use the auto update
>>feature that Win98 provides. Any help to suggest?
>
>
>Whoops - I have Win98 installed for a couple of reasons. From OE you should
>have a Product Update under the Help/Microsoft on the Web section. That
>should take you to the correct page. You should be able to get the patch
via
>the MSIE auto update, too (via the Help/Product Updates selection).
>
>Cheers,
>----
>Mark Charette@-----.org
>Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
>All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
>"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger
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