Question about KB891711

Clint_abx · 03-10-2005, 11:17 AM

I went to the Windows 98 update site the other day and there was a critical surcurity update KB891711. I downloaded and installed it. Later I ran MSCONFIG, and it's loaded at startup. It takes up 17 meg of memory. I did a search on this, but found nothing. Do any of you know what this does? Is it safe to uncheck this in MSCONFIG?

Insomniac_abx · 03-12-2005, 12:47 AM

It's late and I'm tired so I'll be brief. For some information about KB891711, view this page on Microsoft: h††p://vvvvvv•microsoft•com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-002.mspx
(the system won't let me post a link, so just translate this one into a working URL in your address bar)

This is the info page for techs; the home user page didn't give anything useful at all. There are headline links to click that expand the text on the page. Long story short, the vulnerability is icons, cursors, and animated cursors that the system processes in such a way that an attacker could put malicious code in them to take the same level of control of the computer as you, the user, have when sitting there at the keyboard. But in order to work, the user also has to go to the attacker's web page where the attacker can exploit the bad code and take that control. I don't know why there has to be something running from MSConfig since no other security update does that, and the article doesn't explain it either. I'm going to remove mine from MSConfig so it doesn't load; I'm really not very concerned because it seems quite unlikely to happen.

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03-10-2005, 11:17 AM	#1
Clint_abx Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Danville, Va. Posts: 226	Question about KB891711 I went to the Windows 98 update site the other day and there was a critical surcurity update KB891711. I downloaded and installed it. Later I ran MSCONFIG, and it's loaded at startup. It takes up 17 meg of memory. I did a search on this, but found nothing. Do any of you know what this does? Is it safe to uncheck this in MSCONFIG? __________________ ASUS CUSL2-C 1006a, Intel PIII 1000 Mhz 512 Meg no name WD 40 Gig & WD 80 Gig HD's Win XP Pro SP1 & WIN 98 SE dual boot Adaptec AVA-2906 SCSI for scanner D-Link DCM-201 Cable modem, D-Link DI-604 Router, D-Link DFE-530TX+ NIC Plextor 16/10/40 CDRW px w1610a,Pioneer DVD-116
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03-12-2005, 12:47 AM	#2
Insomniac_abx Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1	Some info on KB891711 It's late and I'm tired so I'll be brief. For some information about KB891711, view this page on Microsoft: h††p://vvvvvv•microsoft•com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-002.mspx (the system won't let me post a link, so just translate this one into a working URL in your address bar) This is the info page for techs; the home user page didn't give anything useful at all. There are headline links to click that expand the text on the page. Long story short, the vulnerability is icons, cursors, and animated cursors that the system processes in such a way that an attacker could put malicious code in them to take the same level of control of the computer as you, the user, have when sitting there at the keyboard. But in order to work, the user also has to go to the attacker's web page where the attacker can exploit the bad code and take that control. I don't know why there has to be something running from MSConfig since no other security update does that, and the article doesn't explain it either. I'm going to remove mine from MSConfig so it doesn't load; I'm really not very concerned because it seems quite unlikely to happen. [registered just to post this reply, probably never to return]
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