961051: Patch Caveat PPTP, Cisco, CheckPoint

[SSGTech Tim]

Post installation of this patch on an Windows XP SP3 workstation running VPN
connections; all VPN connection ceased to function
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Affected: PPTP, L2TP, Cisco VPN Client, CheckPoint VPN.
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Resolution: Uninstall the patch and install Firefox.
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Hopefully a better regression tested version of this patch will be
forthcoming.

Tim Andaya
Strategic Systems Group, Inc.
http://www.ssgnet.com

 

[MowGreen [MVP]]

Were the workarounds undone prior to installing KB960714 ?
If no joy, then report the issue since it's doubtful anyone from MS will
see your post in this newsgroup, Tim:

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