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A few weeks later, the "Oh-So-Dangerous" security issue with all versions of Windows arrived, and I downloaded the update.
Can you tell us exactly which update this might be? Unfortunately, my XP system was new and there were a lot of XP updates at the same time. I do run 98se on another system, but never take M$ "security updates" for that. Knowing which update it is might be another important step in reproducing this on demand and getting the word out on what this company is doing and hopefully holding them responsiable for it.

And thanks for spelling out which network card was affected, that may help as well.