Text 15891, 48 rader
Skriven 2006-02-26 21:46:00 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
  Kommentar till text 15834 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
Ärende: MS AntiSpyware
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Hello CHARLES,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Friday February 24 2006 at 15:42,
    CHARLES ANGELICH [1:123/140] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: MS AntiSpyware

 GM>>>> A most curious thing when I attempted the install... I
 GM>>>> received the following message:

 GM>>>> "This software requires GDI+. Please load the Windows
 GM>>>> 2000 Security PreRequisite Pack."

 CA> While transferring software to my new machine I spotted my copy
 CA> of gdiscan.exe and ran it on the new machine, a HP machine,
 CA> just for grins and found that there are 6 copies of GDIPLUS.DLL
 CA> that have the JPG flaw in them! I guess I shouldn't be
 CA> surprised that three years after discovering this flaw people
 CA> remain apathetic about fixing it. Unfortunately Microsoft's
 CA> website gives the impression that SP2 for XP solves the
 CA> problem, it doesn't. When third party software includes it's
 CA> _own_ flawed copy in it's install directory the problem
 CA> continues and I'm not finding that one DLL file from Microsoft
 CA> (there are _many_ versions of this one DLL) to use as a
 CA> replacement for the flawed versions.

Am I mistaken (wouldn't be the first time)?  I _thought_ that the Micro$oft
Baseline Security Analyzer program would detect/delete the flawed files...
Maybe it was something else that I might have seen / glossed over in the MS
Downloads for IT area...  ?

 CA> Nothing is ever easy when there is no organized effort to fix
 CA> problems such as this one. :-(

The ONLY persons that are organized at Microsoft is the mail delivery boy
and the building custodians...  :))

Seriously though, Microsoft does fix some things - they just neglect to go
back to trash the original screwups or revise the KB to reflect the changes
(although, they appear to be making some progress with the Knowledge Base).
I always look at the dates and presume that the most recent file will
attend to the shortcomings. <shrug>

           Cheers ... Gerald

... Youse pays your money and youse takes your chances.
--- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-b20060121 [msg of Sunday February 26 2006]
 * Origin: As funny as a hungry grizzly bear in your tent. (1:342/512)