In-Reply-To: <009301c2129f$58ff1f90$3701a8c0@stingray> >What classic MS, their newest critical alert dealing with the Gopher Root >Vulnerability discussed on Security Focus last week >[http://online.securityfocus.com/news/464] seems to break windows media >player. > >Is there any validity to this- and, does their fix work? > >More info on the microsoft critical alert: >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp? url=/technet/security/ >bulletin/MS02-027.asp >More info on the breakage: http://www.pivx.com/workaround_fail.html Not a bit of validity to this; WMP 7.1 successfully initialized and did not give any errors (fresh install), with the Gopher proxy set to localhost:1. BTW I don't think it was MS that proposed the proxy workaround, that was Online Solutions (http://www.solutions.fi/) that did that. I sent an e-mail to PivX concerning a *multitude* of inaccuracies and omissions from their "Gopher Smoker" workaround. No response from PivX on that. I will have to investigate this, but doesn't installing such a fix like "Gopher Smoker" invalidate support contracts?
