IE8 - duff update released

[Simon W]

If anyone's using IE8, Microsoft have released a duff security update which screws up various things.

Ident is KB980182. If you haven't already installed it, the best option is to ignore the little swine.

[Ragman]

What does it do - that it's not supposed to I mean

[Simon W]

I only noticed the errors it produces an hour ago, having said 'yes' to installing it this morning.

At the very least (I don't know what else it does) - it messes up the ability to follow web page links and reply to a post in a forum. For instance, on this site, you can't reply to a post at all, trying it caused mayhem.

I did a System Restore and got rid of the update.

[JohnDotCom]

Just go to add/remove prgrams and remove it from there. (or now warned don't mark for download)

[Ragman]

Odd as mine updated earlier and I'm not seeing any problems (famous last words)

[FredSpencer]

Originally Posted by Ragman

Odd as mine updated earlier and I'm not seeing any problems (famous last words)

Same here.

[JohnDotCom]

Tried it loaded last night and no problems here or any warnings/reports on MS Partner website either at the moment.

Any further information on your problem you had with it?

[JohnDotCom]

Further to above the update believe it or not is more focussed on IE6/IE7 but see below.
It shouldn't affect anything in much for you IE8 and believe you may have a different problem.

Executive Summary

This security update resolves nine privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
This security update is rated Critical for all supported releases of Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Internet Explorer 6 on Windows clients, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows clients. For Internet Explorer 6 on Windows servers, this update is rated Important. And for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows servers, this update is rated Moderate. For more information, see the subsection, Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section.
The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Internet Explorer verifies the origin of scripts and handles objects in memory, content using encoding strings, and long URL. For more information about the vulnerabilities, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) subsection under the next section, Vulnerability Information.
This security update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 981374. The vulnerability, CVE-2010-0806, does not affect Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Internet Explorer 8.

[baconbuttyman]

Originally Posted by Simon W

If anyone's using IE8, Microsoft have released a duff security update which screws up various things.

Ident is KB980182. If you haven't already installed it, the best option is to ignore the little swine.

yeah i had that and simply deleted as i mostly use firefox

[Simon W]

Originally Posted by JohnDotCom

Tried it loaded last night and no problems here or any warnings/reports on MS Partner website either at the moment.

Any further information on your problem you had with it?

No, not on my machine (I haven't installed it again) but plenty of others are having trouble with it as well:

• All posts - http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...6-a61efc1d2753

• Post 2 - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic306127.html

• Post 1 - http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3990349.php

• 1st & last post - 'can't surf' - http://www.winvistatips.com/cant-sur...2-t818023.html

• Post 1 - http://www.vistax64.com/vista-genera...-kb980182.html

Loads of others.

Pesky update. Who writes this stuff?