MS KB951748 breaks ZoneAlarm

Windows update KB951748 should not be installed. It will break your Internet connection. If you have it already installed, uninstalling it fixes the problem.

I have spent the day troubleshooting over 20 PCs and have found all installations to have the install date of 9 July 2008, which in my part of the world is tomorrow. I think that as of tomorrow it should work. If not then MS broke something again, but we are used to that.

How to fix it?  Go to Start> Control Panel> Add/Remove Programs.  Make sure to put the tick mark in the "Show updates" box in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.  Scroll down to the Windows Updates and look for (KB951748), highlight it and press remove.  You will need to immediately do a reboot and when your machine has restarted your Internet connection will function again!

With that info,

 

Safe Surfing!

Are you secure and up-to-date?

If you are using Firefox, chances are good, if you are using IE, things look bad. According to a report from the Washington Post, “83.3 percent of Firefox users were found to have the latest version installed at any given time” compared to “47.6 percent of Microsoft Internet Explorer users”.

The info was collected only by browser type and did not include any plug-ins “such as those for Flash Player, Java, QuickTime and Adobe Reader. It's a safe bet that the share of users surfing the Web with fully-patched browsers would be far below 60 percent (probably closer to 15 or 20 percent),” if these were taken into account.

So now you ask how you can be sure that all of these plug-ins and other software you use is updated and secure? There is one way that I use and that is to use Secunia’s PSI. It “is designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer from software vulnerabilities”.

With this info,

Safe Surfing!