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Microsoft: latest update might mess up Internet Explorer 7

Software giant Microsoft has admitted that some users might face issues running Internet Explorer 7 after installing the recently issued patches.

The company has now published some temporary fixes for this problem. Christopher Budd, a program manager with the Microsoft Security Response Team (MSRC) wrote in a blog post: “The issue here is that after applying the update, these users may then see the ‘File Download — Security Warning’ dialog box raised when starting IE. After you close the dialog, you then cannot start IE.”

He added that the problem exists for those users who have moved the Temporary Internet Files directory to some other location.

If this has been done, Internet Explorer would no longer have access to the folder in the new location and would refuse to start.

Users can either move the folder back to the original location or give correct permissions to the folder in the new place to get the web browser working.

An IE7 user named Ottmar Freudenberger added: “It’s irrelevant whether the Temporary Internet Files folder has been moved from the default location. The issue is the subfolder ‘PhishingFilter.’ Deleting that folder will solve the issue. Also moving the TIF folder via the Internet Options to *any* other folder will resolve the issue too, since with moving the TIF the ‘PhishingFilter’ subfolder is deleted and recreated as soon as you [enable] the Phishing Filter in Internet Options.”

Microsoft added that the problem affects IE7 on both Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.