Pavlov Scope

Microsoft has released the patches for this (and the other recently reported bugs) earlier this afternoon (2005-Dec-13).

I will be testing these patches out in my testbed tonight to make sure they don’t break the OS (worse than the workaround)... but I recommend that everyone (read:personal/home computers) visit the Windows Update site which you must use IE to access – you might have to add *.microsoft.com into the Trusted Zones area if you have put the workaround in place. Or, you can usually just use the “Start button – Windows Update” link as well.

If your professional (read:work/job) organization isn’t deploying these patches or doesn’t have a patch management solution in place, I would also recommend updating your work computer in the same way… but if your company/organization does update your software for you, you might be throwing a monkey wrench into things.

If you have questions or problems, please let me know.

Please be aware that there have been reports that this update breaks computers running IE7 (beta) in parallel with IE6, so for all you tinkerers out there, heed.