Re: unable to access web site embeds username & password

["Keith W. McCammon" <keith-list () mccammon org>]

Here's the offending patch:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-004.mspx

You can remove it, or you can Google for work-arounds, which seem to be 
available, but are obviously unsupported and may cause some residual 
security issues.

OPTUSBYS wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have discovered if I access my intranet that embeds the username and
> password, it will not work on workstations have the latest Microsoft
> security patches installed.
>
> http://username:password@webserver/website
>
>
> Does anyone have a solution to this because I still don't know which
> security patch that inhibits the access. 
>
> On the other hand, I don't really want to leave my workstations unprotected
> too.
>
>
> Thanks for your contribution.
>
> Much appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
> Seeker.