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Latest Patch Renders IE7 Useless
Techtree News Staff, May 21, 2007 1204 hrs ISTWhile the IE team has said it is looking into the issue, the MSRC has reportedly generated a support document with two workarounds to fix the problem.
Some users have been unable to use Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) after installing Microsoft's latest patch fixing six bugs that was issued earlier this month, according to reports.
The Microsoft security team has acknowledged the problem, and has published some temporary fixes for it.
In a blog posting, Christopher Budd, Program Manager, Microsoft Security Response Team (MSRC), said the problem is that after applying the update, users may see a "File Download - Security Warning" dialogue box raised when starting IE. And after they close the dialogue box, they end up not being able to start IE.
According to Budd, the problem is encountered by those users who have moved the Temporary Internet Files directory, which is used as IE's cache folder, to some other location. In such a case, IE would no longer have proper access rights to the folder in its new location, and would throw up the warning, and refuse to run.
While the IE team has said it is looking into the issue, the MSRC has reportedly generated a support document with two workarounds that users can apply to fix the problem. The first workaround is to simply return the cache folder to its previous, default location; and the second is to grant the required permissions to the folder in its new location.
However, some users on the Windows Update support forum are still complaining of problems with their IE7 despite not moving the Temporary Internet Files (TIF) directory.
Meanwhile, a user named Ottmar Freudenberger has summarized an alternate rationale for the problem on Microsoft's IE blog.
Freudenberger says that it is irrelevant whether the Temporary Internet Files folder is moved or not from the default location. The real problem is with the subfolder 'PhishingFilter', deleting which would solve the problem. Freudenberger suggests that also by moving the TIF folder via Internet Options to 'any' other folder would resolve the issue. The reason for this being by moving the TIF, the 'PhishingFilter' subfolder is deleted and recreated as soon as users enable 'PhishingFilter' in Internet Options.
The problem affects IE7 on both Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2, Microsoft warns.
The Microsoft security team has acknowledged the problem, and has published some temporary fixes for it.
In a blog posting, Christopher Budd, Program Manager, Microsoft Security Response Team (MSRC), said the problem is that after applying the update, users may see a "File Download - Security Warning" dialogue box raised when starting IE. And after they close the dialogue box, they end up not being able to start IE.
According to Budd, the problem is encountered by those users who have moved the Temporary Internet Files directory, which is used as IE's cache folder, to some other location. In such a case, IE would no longer have proper access rights to the folder in its new location, and would throw up the warning, and refuse to run.
While the IE team has said it is looking into the issue, the MSRC has reportedly generated a support document with two workarounds that users can apply to fix the problem. The first workaround is to simply return the cache folder to its previous, default location; and the second is to grant the required permissions to the folder in its new location.
However, some users on the Windows Update support forum are still complaining of problems with their IE7 despite not moving the Temporary Internet Files (TIF) directory.
Meanwhile, a user named Ottmar Freudenberger has summarized an alternate rationale for the problem on Microsoft's IE blog.
Freudenberger says that it is irrelevant whether the Temporary Internet Files folder is moved or not from the default location. The real problem is with the subfolder 'PhishingFilter', deleting which would solve the problem. Freudenberger suggests that also by moving the TIF folder via Internet Options to 'any' other folder would resolve the issue. The reason for this being by moving the TIF, the 'PhishingFilter' subfolder is deleted and recreated as soon as users enable 'PhishingFilter' in Internet Options.
The problem affects IE7 on both Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2, Microsoft warns.
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