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[ PFIR ] Important Warning Re MS Internet Explorer 7 Installation Failures
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:29:24 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: pfir () pfir org Date: November 3, 2006 7:34:10 PM EST To: pfir-list () pfir orgSubject: [ PFIR ] Important Warning Re MS Internet Explorer 7 Installation Failures Reply-To: PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility announcement list <pfir () pfir org>
Important Warning Re MS Internet Explorer 7 Installation Failures ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000198.html ) Greetings. While I do not yet have enough information to characterize this as a widespread problem, I wanted to issue a heads-up that I'm seeing 100% failure rates on installations of the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on local machines here. MS is pushing IE7 down as a "high priority optional update" in the current Windows Update cycle. On the XP machines where I've attempted this install (varying hardware platforms, all validated and fully updated SP2 systems), the installation process appears to go smoothly, but any attempts to run IE7 afterwards fail. There are two different failure modes. In some cases, attempts to start IE7 simply result in "hourglass" then exit. In other cases, the systems appear to hang in hourglass and require a hardware reset to reboot. I do not yet know the underlying factors causing this situation on these multiple systems. The process to uninstall IE7 (via Add/Remove Programs) has worked quickly and apparently properly in all cases so far to restore the systems to IE6 along with all previous settings. This is pretty much all that I have so far, and I would welcome reports from anyone else seeing similar problems with IE7. I thought that it was worth putting out this warning now, since many persons do depend on proper operation of IE (my browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox, but there are some applications that will only work properly under Internet Explorer, unfortunately). I'll provide more info as available and appropriate. Thanks. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Co-Founder, CIFIP - California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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