Klarinet Archive - Posting 001361.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Please read - E-Mail security hole - I checked personally
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 06:50:51 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>

>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.

No - the problem affects OE packages on Win9X & NT according to the press
release.
I found a different page with the search engine at Microsoft (it there,
right at the top of their pages!):
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/security/?/ie/security/oelong.htm

Cheers,
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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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