After complaints an earlier security patch interferes with some
third-party software, Microsoft said it will re-release next week the
fix, eliminating possibly dangerous changes to the Windows registry.
Microsoft said it completed an investigation into complaints
its MS06-015 update, along with a new binary to police which
applications are run from the Windows shell, caused Office and IE to
stop working.
The software giant denies the problems are the fault of
VERCLSID.EXE. A side effect of the new file was older applications,
such as HP’s Share-to-Web software and Sunbelt’s Kerio Personal
Firewall, didn’t recognize the file, causing problems.
“The revised security update will contain no changes to the
binaries included in the initial security update,” according to the
updated MS06-015 security bulletin.
Microsoft said the revision will be automatically sent through
Windows Update and Microsoft Update to users affected by the glitch.