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   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=20
  just hate the way it doesn't launch my default browser, which is btw =
exactly=20
  the same stupidity as the "Windows update" shortcut at the top of my =
start=20
  menu. Grrr...


  Antti Kurenniemi

  "Rich"  wrote in message news:416ac932$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     A shortcut to=20
  http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409_jpeg_tool.mspx =
should=20
  have been created on your desktop.  Could you have deleted it?

  Rich

    "Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote
in message=20
  news:416ab50c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
    ...where did it go? I installed it, it ran and said it had something =
to=20
  tell
    me and would I like to know more, well duh yes, isn't that exactly =
why I=20
  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=20
  tell
    me. Okey dokey, no biggie, just open the firewall for IE temporarily =
and=20
  run
    the tool again - except that I don't know where it's hiding. Right, =
so=20
  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=20
  EULA
    that is at least seventy pages long. Yay for assholes once more =
running=20
  the
    show!


    Antti Kurenniemi



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   The
desktop icon isn't =
from IE. =20
It's from some Windows Update component.
 
   It didn't
launch your =
default browser=20
because it requires IE because it uses an ActiveX component just like = Windows=20
Update itself.
 
Rich
 

  "Antti Kurenniemi" <NOantti{at}SPAManttikPLEASE.com=">mailto:NOantti{at}SPAManttikPLEASE.com">NOantti{at}SPAManttikPLEASE.com=
>=20
  wrote in message news:416ace75$1{at}w3.nls.net...Nope,=20
  no shortcut there and did not delete anything. Could it have had =
something=20
  to do with IE not being able to reach wherever it was going? I =
just hate=20
  the way it doesn't launch my default browser, which is btw exactly =
the=20
  same stupidity as the "Windows update" shortcut at the top of my start =

  menu. Grrr...Antti
Kurenniemi"Rich" <{at}> =
wrote in=20
  message news:416ac932$1{at}w3.nls.net...=
  =20
  A shortcut to http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409_jpeg_tool.mspx=
">=20" target="new">http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409_jpeg_tool.mspx=20
  should have been created on your desktop.  Could you have =
deleted=20
  it?Rich  "Antti
Kurenniemi" <NOantti{at}SPAManttikPLEASE.com=">mailto:NOantti{at}SPAManttikPLEASE.com">NOantti{at}SPAManttikPLEASE.com=
>=20
  wrote in message news:416ab50c$1{at}w3.nls.net...=
 =20
  ...where did it go? I installed it, it ran and said it had something =
to=20
  tell  me and would I like to know more, well
duh yes, =
isn't that=20
  exactly why I ran  it in the first place you
damn stupid =
idiot,=20
  go ahead. So it launches the  browser, but not my default =
browser, oh=20
  no, it launches IE which is not  allowed to go through my =
firewall,=20
  so I never see what it is trying to tell 
me. Okey dokey, =
no=20
  biggie, just open the firewall for IE temporarily and =
run  the=20
  tool again - except that I don't know where it's hiding. Right, so=20
  let's  download the bugger again and give it
a new go - =
you=20
  guessed it, now it  doesn't show up in the list of available=20
  patches.  Not in the start menu anywhere, not in the =
control=20
  panel, not even in the  damn security center thingy where it =
could=20
  almost even belong to. Tried  searching for files modified =
today, and=20
  nothing executable there.  ARG! Bloodpressure=20
  rising!  I really hate this attitude that
nothing matters =
as long=20
  as it's got an EULA  that is at least
seventy pages long. =
Yay for=20
  assholes once more running the 
show!  =
Antti=20
  Kurenniemi 
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