Issue with KB960715 and Winsock Controls

[Paul]

I am using winsock controls in my A2007 application. Since I loaded update
KB960715, the winsock controls are no longer recognized. I spent all day
scouring the internet and tried updating MSWINSCK.OCX (6.1.9782) but nothing
works unless I remove KB960715.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Paul

 

[Peter Hibbs]

Paul,

It seems that this security update also broke the FlexGrid ActiveX
Control.

http://support.erol.co.uk/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=223

Just un-instal it and wait to see what Microsoft does about it.

Peter Hibbs.

 

[Graham Mandeno]

Hi Paul

Did you see my reply to your other thread? Here is a "kosher" solution that
moves forwards, rather than uninstalling KB960715:

The KB960715 "security update" sets a "kill bit" in the registry entry for
several ActiveX controls, including several of MS's own VB6 controls.
MSFlexGrid and WinSock are two of those affected.
More info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/960715.mspx

It turns out that there is another KB (957924) which updates those VB6
ActiveX controls to a later version which does not have the vulnerability
and are therefore not kill-bitted. The "OK" version for msflxgrd.ocx and
mswinsck.ocx 6.1.98.12.
You can download this VB6 update from here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957924

Unfortunately, the KB957924 update will not run unless you have VB6
installed, so you probably can't run it on the end-user machine. However,
you can run it on a machine with VB6 and then redistribute the new
version(s) of the OCX file(s) from that machine to the end users.

I hope this helps. I agree with you that this is a monumental cock-up. I
don't understand how MS can shoot themselves in the foot like this.