- Microsoft is issuing a fix for a fix it's already issued.

“The MS06-042 bulletin, which fixed 8 flaws in Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6, will be recrafted, then re-released next Tuesday, Aug. 22, a company security program manager said Wednesday,” says InformationWeek.

Recrafted,eh? ;p

"We've made an update to MS06-042 to let customers know of an issue they might see after applying the update to Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 systems," the story has Mike Reavey, the operations manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), saying.

Users running IE 6 SP1 on Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2000, “will watch their browsers crash when they visit sites that have both compression and the HTTP 1.1 protocol enabled.

“Until MS06-042 is re-released, users can apply a Microsoft-made hotfix. However, it's not available for download; users must contact Microsoft's product support by telephone to request the hotfix.”

Although the prospect of crashes looms for users, Bill and the Boyz, “continued to urge everyone to apply the MS06-042 fixes,” adds InfoWeek.

Also See:
InformationWeek - Microsoft To Fix Patch That Crashes IE, August 17, 2006