From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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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