IE7 Anti-Phishing Hotfix

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Dec 2006, 23:46

I don't normally pay "too much" attention to hotfixes but this one caught my eye.

It's a Hotfix to fix a bug in IE7 where it uses far to many system resources when checking sites for Phishing. My Dad has complained his PC (or at least IE7 anyway) is slower since putting IE7 on. I barely use it myself to be able to say.

It's only a 2.2Mb download. Anyway here it is:

Hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928089
More info/article: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6144342.html

p.s - For most you want "Update for Windows XP with Service Pack 2, x86-based versions".

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 26 Dec 2006, 00:55

Is this one of the WinUpdate Critical Updates? I would check myself, but I've been too busy downloading several gigs worth of anime these last few days.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Dec 2006, 03:06

Personally I'd say it's critical but I'm not honestly sure as Microsoft oddly haven't rolled it out to the Windows Update Service (why who knows).

I'd imagine when they do it will be in the Critical not "nice to have" section.

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 26 Dec 2006, 13:25

bradavon wrote:Personally I'd say it's critical but I'm not honestly sure as Microsoft oddly haven't rolled it out to the Windows Update Service (why who knows).

I'd imagine when they do it will be in the Critical not "nice to have" section.

I think they have a month or 3 month period to collect all bugs and then roll them out onto windows update

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Dec 2006, 15:03

Cheers

IE7 didn't appear on WU straight away.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Jan 2007, 14:14

I downloaded the plug in, but also turned off IE7's Phising filter, its unbelievable how slow it was.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 03 Jan 2007, 14:18

I never use IE7. I doubt I even have it. Is it any good?
For me, Avant Browser is the best browser available. I believe it was someone on these boards that recommended it, and I am forever gratefull...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jan 2007, 18:46

grim_tales wrote:I downloaded the plug in, but also turned off IE7's Phising filter, its unbelievable how slow it was.

What! Get a faster PC or stop running all that crap you've probably got in your system. It's there for a reason.

There answer is NOT to turn it off. You may as well turn your Firewall and Virus checker off too. That wasn't supposed to sound rude but Grim that is a dumb thing to do.

I've noticed no real difference, other than maybe a spit second where it scans pages but I use Firefox 2.0 mostly myself.

Yi-Long wrote:I never use IE7. I doubt I even have it. Is it any good?

Compard to IE6 a massive yes in everyway but if you're happy with Avant there is no reason to upgrade per say.

Yi-Long wrote:For me, Avant Browser is the best browser available. I believe it was someone on these boards that recommended it, and I am forever gratefull...

It's just an IE6 addon so most of the functionality is the same. The menu bar on the right hand side really did my head in, it had to go. Firefox 2.0 is by far the best IMO. Extension support unique to Firefox is worth it alone.

p.s - Opera is probably the second best, many prefer it to Firefox.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 03 Jan 2007, 18:55

bradavon wrote:What! Get a faster PC or stop running all that crap you've probably got in your system.

Hark, the rallying cry of the Windows user

Sorry, that was far too easy...

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 03 Jan 2007, 18:56

Nothing dumb about turning off a phishing thing if it has a performance impact. The dumb thing would be too get fooled by phishers...

I'm using FF 1.5. 2 was a horrible update as far as I'm concerned, some really stupid functionality changes.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jan 2007, 19:23

Kurgan wrote:Hark, the rallying cry of the Windows user

Not really. I bet MacOS would slow down if you had to much crap running in the background.

That's not a Windows but user problem.

Lourdes wrote:The dumb thing would be too get fooled by phishers...

Well okay if you put it that way but it's all to easy to forget and type something into a dodgy site + Grim shares his PC with his whole family AFAIK.

So definitely not a good idea. Besides it's better to get the problem fixed than just turned it off.

Lourdes wrote:I'm using FF 1.5. 2 was a horrible update as far as I'm concerned, some really stupid functionality changes.

Such as out of interest? Personally I think it's much better.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Jan 2007, 19:47

I'll turn Phishing Filter back on but disable "Automatic Website checking".

We keep trying to delete loads of useless crap on our machine but the password to get into the "BWiltshire" (that has all the rubbish) doesnt work, and mum's work colleague doesnt know it/cant remember it (?) We tried several times BTW.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jan 2007, 20:01

I'm guessing that will be virtually pointless as it will rely on you manually checking sites. I'm just guessing though.

I thought you used FF2 anyway?

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 03 Jan 2007, 20:26

bradavon wrote:
Yi-Long wrote:For me, Avant Browser is the best browser available. I believe it was someone on these boards that recommended it, and I am forever gratefull...
It's just an IE6 addon so most of the functionality is the same. The menu bar on the right hand side really did my head in, it had to go. Firefox 2.0 is by far the best IMO. Extension support unique to Firefox is worth it alone.

What right hand side menu-bar? I have all my stuff in that browser nice organised. You can move everything around as you please, and whatever you dont need you can turn off or make it disappear etc etc...
I love it. I can set it up completely how I like it best

Just check the screenshot to see how it's layed out...

p.s - Opera is probably the second best, many prefer it to Firefox.

Used both of those in school, but wasnt really a big fan of either. A bit simplistic, and I really cant be bothered with adding all kinds of plug-ins for firefox

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 03 Jan 2007, 20:27

I thought I did

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 03 Jan 2007, 23:48

bradavon wrote:Not really. I bet MacOS would slow down if you had to much crap running in the background.

That's not a Windows but user problem.

I think you missed my point. I was referring to the usual response for stuff running slowly on Windows being to buy something to alleviate the problem.

And it takes a fair bit more crap to slow down MacOS compared to Windows XP

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 03 Jan 2007, 23:56

bradavon wrote:
Lourdes wrote:]I'm using FF 1.5. 2 was a horrible update as far as I'm concerned, some really stupid functionality changes.
Such as out of interest? Personally I think it's much better.

Don't even remember now to be honest.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Jan 2007, 01:08

Yi-Long wrote:What right hand side menu-bar?

I installed it shortly after FF2 was released and it was stuck on the right hand side, for the life of me I couldn't get it back on the right. The left was used to show what's happening to pages loading, instead of the bottom left on most browsers.

Do you run an old version?

Kurgan wrote:I think you missed my point. I was referring to the usual response for stuff running slowly on Windows being to buy something to alleviate the problem.

Oh yeah

. Well that's one fix but as you say the proper fix is to get house keeping.

Installing Norton System Works ironically designed to make your PC run quicker has the complete opposite effect.

Kurgan wrote:And it takes a fair bit more crap to slow down MacOS compared to Windows XP

But it's possible

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 04 Jan 2007, 02:11

Brad: I use the newest version. It automatically asks for updates whenever available, so I always update

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 04 Jan 2007, 09:20

Hotfixes are usually released by MS to fix problems that are not "too common" and are usually not tested to the same extent that updates through Windows Update is. Usually you'll get hotfixes for driver issues or oddities in combination with software/hardware versions. They are not usually released for "everyone" because "everyone" won't have the problem - and the fix may cause new problems.

If this is in reality a problem with every IE7 installation, or with most of them, it will probably be available shortly through Windows Update --- when it's been properly been tested by Bradavon