Switch Zone Alarm from High to Medium security as a quck fix: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/microsoft-update-kills

Interesting: This MS fix was in fact part of a coordinated effort to patch the 16 main internet DNS servers on multiple OSses, not only windows, to stop a DNS poisoning hole (redirect of traffic to hacker sites) that had existed on the Internet for 6 months and ZA being one of few caught with their pants down.... maybe they're not in the circle of trust ;>)

Semantics, word of the week.

Are there still people calling MS Call Center when they have problems with MS patches? My understanding was that it is unlikely that it ever helps anybody. So, not receiving any call does not prove anything.

Beside this I am still waiting for an explanation that ZA has anything to do with this DNS flaw, nor that being obliged to lower the level of protection by some "clever" MS patch is putting the blame on ZA's side. For me it's in the same kind of cleverness as software providers who ask users to de-activate their antivirus for installing their products (which I never do, obviously, and the things install without trouble).

I am probably missing something obvious that somebody will kindly explain for me.

Cheers. Jean.