Comments on: Vulnerability in Windows Shell could allow remote code execution http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop/vulnerability-in-windows-shell-could-allow-remote-code-execution/ Mon, 13 May 2013 06:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Edtittel http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop/vulnerability-in-windows-shell-could-allow-remote-code-execution/#comment-30 Edtittel Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:25:38 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop/?p=961#comment-30 If you install the FixIt workaround available in KB2286198, even if you install the follow-on Security Update (MS 10-046), you must still return to the KB article page, and then run the uninstall the patch FixIt program to get your icons back to normal on your desktop. Apparently MS didn’t write code to check for that patch/hotfix application nor did it choose to reverse the workaround as part of applying the follow-on update. Given that there was less than a week between workaround and long-term update, I guess you can’t blame them. But man, I was disappointed when after applying the latest out-of-band update, it didn’t also restore my icons from the blank white page look to their original full-color glory. Just another day in the IT trenches, I guess!

–Ed–

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