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Story: Firms urged to use unauthorised Windows patch

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Posted by: john (Thursday 5 January 2006, 12:24 PM)

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To John L and others.

Windows paint and third party software still work - to view your own safe images.

It is only the the actual windows mechanisms which are affected by the unofficial patch - to protect your system from unauthorised malicious activity.

The unofficial patch is fully reversible and must be unistalled before installing MS patch when issued and confirmed effective. Shimgvw.dll should also be re-registered if you have unregistered it (run regsvr32.exe C:\windows\system32\shimgvw.dll).

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