I'm the patch developer and I'm really ashamed because, yes there was a buffer overflow in my patch but I fixed it immediatly and nobody out there thought about checking the source code again and relayed the fact it was flawed all around the world. People although thought that the patch was a spyware because it redirected to a page on openwares' server, it was not but I removed it anyway. All this thing to say the patch is clean and working and has been for a long time, and I still notice people saying it's buffer overflowed. So next time one wants to say that, please check the source code before copy/pasting what people say.
This was a try to help the community, the only thing we got out of this is traffic to promote our website, which wasn't really succesful since we got flamed because of some flaw I removed immediatly... So next time such a thing happens I won't give a f___ and create the patch for me alone.
And one last point: if you wonder why M$ doesn't make a patch, it's not a matter of testing, it's not a matter of developing the patch... It's because this "%01" thing is a trick they use with many things like Messenger/IE interactions. It's a real bad programming trick, so because they use it in many cases, they have to find a way to do the same without it. That's why they have to recode a lot of stuff.
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I'm the patch developer and I'm really ashamed because, yes there was a buffer overflow in my patch but I fixed it immediatly and nobody out there thought about checking the source code again and relayed the fact it was flawed all around the world.
People although thought that the patch was a spyware because it redirected to a page on openwares' server, it was not but I removed it anyway. All this thing to say the patch is clean and working and has been for a long time, and I still notice people saying it's buffer overflowed. So next time one wants to say that, please check the source code before copy/pasting what people say.
This was a try to help the community, the only thing we got out of this is traffic to promote our website, which wasn't really succesful since we got flamed because of some flaw I removed immediatly...
So next time such a thing happens I won't give a f___ and create the patch for me alone.
And one last point: if you wonder why M$ doesn't make a patch, it's not a matter of testing, it's not a matter of developing the patch... It's because this "%01" thing is a trick they use with many things like Messenger/IE interactions. It's a real bad programming trick, so because they use it in many cases, they have to find a way to do the same without it. That's why they have to recode a lot of stuff.