Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Deanna Earley Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Subject: Re: MS12-027 MSCOMCTL security update Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:36:48 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <9240169.82.1334587566004.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbuo5> NNTP-Posting-Host: rjApkXnSOjrT83QpZ8fKqg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:1038 On 16/04/2012 15:46, dcox wrote: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2641426 > > https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29326 > > Inside the msi file there is mscomctl.cab. This contains mscomctl.ocx > version 6.1.98.33. I assume this is the file that should now be > redistributed and not the one in VB60SP6-KB957924-v2-x86-ENU which contains > mscomctl.ocx version 6.01.98.16. > More info about in on the podcast https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm > episode 348 about 17 minutes in. Normal practice (as with the security updates to the VB runtimes) is to distribute the latest from the service pack and leave the updates to Windows Updates. As long as your installer correctly handles the version number, you shouldn't have a problem. -- Deanna Earley (dee.earley@icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team http://www.icode.co.uk/icatcher/ iCode Systems (Replies direct to my email address will be ignored. Please reply to the group.)