20 Oct
2006
20 Oct
'06
11:25 p.m.
I use Firefox 99% of the time, but tonight I decided to update IE 6 to the
brand-new IE 7.
So I opened Firefox, went to Microsoft.com, clicked the update button for IE
on their homepage, and .... absolutely nothing happened. I guess they block
FF. Not surprising, but no big deal.
Instead I opened IE 6.x, again went to Microsoft.com, clicked the same
update button, and .... my anti-virus scanner (Alwil Software' Avast, which
I highly recommend) immediately popped up! It read the Microsoft download
as a virus and it urged me to abort the connection. I rebooted and tried it
again with the same results. It cites "VBS: zulu" as the culprit.