The BackUp BugBlog: September 2006

Dreamweaver Says Your Parameter May Be Incorrect

Adobe says that you may get an error message in Macromedia Dreamweaver that says:
Parameter is incorrect.
(That happens to be an error message that I run into a lot in Dreamweaver.) Adobe says this may happen when you try to save a file to an offline mapped networked drive, when you do a File>New>Templates tab command, or when you Put, Get or Synchronize files to or from a remote server. (Alas, none of those situations cover my experience.) The first two can be fixed by installing the Dreamweaver 8.0.2 update. The third comes about by a corrupt time stamp. Adobe has some workaround information at http://www.adobe.com/go/fbfd45c3.

Another ActiveX Problem for Microsoft

At the risk of turning the BugBlog into "All Microsoft, All of the Time" -- US-CERT reports on another bug in an ActiveX control, which will cause a security problem for Microsoft Internet Explorer. This time it is the Microsoft Windows WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX control, and because of an integer overflow a remote attacker may be able to run their code on your computer. There is no fix for Microsoft yet, but US-CERT says you can disable this ActiveX control by setting its kill bit. See more at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/753044.

Microsoft Hurries with a Patch

Microsoft has issued an out-of-cycle security bulletin (meaning they didn't wait for Patch Tuesday) for the VML Buffer Overrun bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This bug was being actively exploited by hostile web sites, and could completely take over your computer, as shown in the 9/26 and 9/20 BugBlogs. Get the patch at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-055.mspx.