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Windows XP Tips And Tricks
If you aren't upgrading to Windows Vista yet, these Windows XP Tips And Tricks might be just what you need to keep your system running at top speed.
22 September 2006
Workaround needed for IE hole by Brian Livingston
Microsoft acknowledged this week a new weakness that allows hacked Web sites to infect PCs merely by displaying specific images in the Internet Explorer browser.Read the full story and more at Windows Secrets
The Redmond company hasn't promised to issue a patch until the company's next regular Patch Tuesday on Oct. 10.
Until then, individual Windows users can protect themselves against the flaw by deregistering vgx.dll. This DLL file is used by IE to render images that are based on Vector Markup Language (VML).
Microsoft recommends that users click Start, Run, paste the following line into the input box, and click OK:
regsvr32 -u "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll
After Microsoft releases a patch for the problem, you can easily reregister the DLL by repeating the procedure without the -u switch:
regsvr32 "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll
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