[Nonesuch]

On the Internet everybody is equal -- except that some Microsoft customers are more equal than others.

[ShadowAce]

I would think that several customers are large enough that they require the advance notice in order to plan the patch rollout. When you need to care for several thousand computers in a large, multi-site corporation, planning is essential.

[Nick Danger]

Has anybody else seen this? This just started on my machine today. It looks like corruption of the video RAM... closing windows leave artifacts on the desktop; there are little yellow stripes on things where there shouldn't be; fairly quickly after it starts the machine becomes unuseable and I have to reboot it. This on Win2K Professional.

I figure this could be

• my hardware failing
• some app I use that got corrupted
• Some malware I've acquired

I know I have the adware thing that causes pop-ups in IE, even when there are none on the site. I've tried Norton, Spybot, AdAware, CWShredder, but so far no joy at getting rid of it. I just wonder if maybe it's more malicious than just causing pop-ups.

[ninenot]

Thans for the headsup.

It's for Outlook Express, 11 minutes if by dialup. No restart required on my machine.

[Nonesuch]

After significant delay, Microsoft has released a major patch for Internet Explorer.

"IE versions 5.01, 5.5. and 6 on multiple Windows platforms are affected so it promises to be a busy day for sysadmins everywhere. Early versions of Microsoft's cumulative patch didn't apply the final release code for XP customers running the latest version of Windows Update. After correcting this, Microsoft reissued its advisory on Sunday. The latest version of the bulletin is here."