From: "Geo" 

antti,

I posted a tool to scan your machine, it's in binaries somewhere.

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:416b4cce$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Hrmph, I understand the logic bud I think it's bad logic: why couldn't my
> default browser support ActiveX (it does because it's only a new UI over
> IE!)? Anyhoop, no big problem, I'll just let it slip.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:416afe3f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>    The desktop icon isn't from IE.  It's from some Windows Update
component.
>
>    It didn't launch your default browser because it requires IE because it
> uses an ActiveX component just like Windows Update itself.
>
> Rich
>
>   "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:416ace75$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>   Nope, no shortcut there and did not delete anything. Could it have had
>   something to do with IE not being able to reach wherever it was going? I
>   just hate the way it doesn't launch my default browser, which is btw
> exactly
>   the same stupidity as the "Windows update" shortcut at the top of my
start
>   menu. Grrr...
>
>
>   Antti Kurenniemi
>
>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:416ac932$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>      A shortcut to
>   http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409_jpeg_tool.mspx should
>   have been created on your desktop.  Could you have deleted it?
>
>   Rich
>
>     "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
>   news:416ab50c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>     ...where did it go? I installed it, it ran and said it had something
to
>   tell
>     me and would I like to know more, well duh yes, isn't that exactly why
I
>   ran
>     it in the first place you damn stupid idiot, go ahead. So it launches
> the
>     browser, but not my default browser, oh no, it launches IE which is
not
>     allowed to go through my firewall, so I never see what it is trying to
>   tell
>     me. Okey dokey, no biggie, just open the firewall for IE temporarily
and
>   run
>     the tool again - except that I don't know where it's hiding. Right, so
>   let's
>     download the bugger again and give it a new go - you guessed it, now
it
>     doesn't show up in the list of available patches.
>
>     Not in the start menu anywhere, not in the control panel, not even in
> the
>     damn security center thingy where it could almost even belong to.
Tried
>     searching for files modified today, and nothing executable there.
>
>     ARG! Bloodpressure rising!
>
>     I really hate this attitude that nothing matters as long as it's got
an
>   EULA
>     that is at least seventy pages long. Yay for assholes once more
running
>   the
>     show!
>
>
>     Antti Kurenniemi
>
>
>
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