Mark Dormer

829643 Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 cannot use the Automatic Detect Settings feature in a Windows XP-based computer to find a WPAD server

833355 You receive a protection fault error message when you try to use the DrvGetStandardVariable function

834462 Your USB printer is listed as offline when you try to print from Windows

So, this should turn up on my blog.

Did it? And did it add the WMP9 blog data?

According to Mike Howard XP SP2 is in the home stretch.

Perhaps we will see it in July

There are reports that Bill Gates is going to start Blogging

I wouldn't mind seeing what the worlds richest dude has to say each day.

It turns out that the recent Download.Ject security issue affects not just IIS5 but IE as well.

Microsoft say that if your running XPSP2 your OK.

Now just about everyone in the world won't be running it.

What about 98, Me, 2000 users. Are we all vulnerable and unable to do anything about this.

Here is the Microsoft recommendation http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/download_ject.mspx

A new widespread Internet attack is targeting thousands of websites and implanting malicious code on Windows-based computers.  Affected computer browsers are infected with a JavaScript code which attempts to download one of several Trojans from a Web site in Russia that is a known source of spam.  This attack appears to be focused on stealing credit card data and other personal information for the identity theft market.

A patch from Microsoft is available here

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/download_ject.mspx