senoritafish | I knew there was a reason I only use IE as a last resort.....

Received from Brian Livingston's Windows Manager newsletter...

Pick a peck of problem patches. I've written before about Microsoft patches that have side effects, but reader Michael Dworkin found a doozy.

Installing the patch Microsoft last month labeled "critical" for Internet Explorer 5 and 6 has the nasty habit of preventing you from logging on to some sites that require a username and password -- even when you've entered valid data.

In a delicious irony, this prevents people who installed the IE patch from accessing the e-mail in their MSN accounts. I guess no one at Microsoft uses MSN or tested it with the patch.

The company has an explanation and a patch for the patch (at least for IE 6) at http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;813951 .

(Evil laughter)
But really, sorry if any of you use MSN. Actually, I better check this out myself - I just downloaded that last week, I think...Stupid Windows Critical Update!