FREE Non-MS Patch for fake URL in the address and status bars.

[Mark R]

The official patch from MS is now available.

Except that instead of fixing the very useful http://userassword@www.site.com and ftp://userassword@ftp.isp.com URLs, they've simply disabled them completely. A shame, because IE works very well as an FTP client.

 

[Rob G.]

There's also no uninstall feature via Add/Remove programs, contrary to what the page describes.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Rob G.
There's also no uninstall feature via Add/Remove programs, contrary to what the page describes.

It's there, look closer. You may be looking near the bottom of your add/remove programs list where the *W*indows hotfixes are instead of where the *I*nternet Explorer hotfixes are.

Except that instead of fixing the very useful http://userassword@www.site.com and ftp://userassword@ftp.isp.com URLs, they've simply disabled them completely. A shame, because IE works very well as an FTP client.

Gripe gripe gripe. It still works just fine as an FTP client. Just select file | login as...
If they would have left it as is and simply caused it to display ftp://user: pass@blah instead of the (unpatched) ftp://blah everyone would just gripe that it's still not fixed and that even displaying the full url wouldn't stop grandma from being suckered into clicking that totally unsolicited and never seen before email from her bank that strangely asks for the account info they should already know.

Tough on security or weak on security, there's always going to be a crowd of people with pitchforks and torches outside MS's door.

 

[Rob G.]

It's there, look closer. You may be looking near the bottom of your add/remove programs list where the *W*indows hotfixes are instead of where the *I*nternet Explorer hotfixes are.

It appears if you install by double-clicking the .exe. I tried installing via command line first and there was no sign of it.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Rob G.

It's there, look closer. You may be looking near the bottom of your add/remove programs list where the *W*indows hotfixes are instead of where the *I*nternet Explorer hotfixes are.

It appears if you install by double-clicking the .exe. I tried installing via command line first and there was no sign of it.

I'm not sure what you mean by command line. If you installed it once and it didn't produce an uninstall and then installed it again it's possible the uninstall is no good. Uninstall just makes a backup of the items when you install it. If it failed the first time through but was able to put the patch on then the next time through the uninstall will just consist of a backup of the already patched files.