Automatic Update Strikes Again. (KB953838)

Murphy and Microsoft must be bed partners. Imagine going to your biggest CRM implementation to provide your training for roll out. As you bring up the system and start training you get a file download prompt for blank.aspx. Interesting, it could just be the machine. However, 80% of all the computers are getting it. Every time you move another entity, you get that wonderful prompt. It is annoying the first 10 times, but words cannot describe the feeling you have after two days of training with it.
After dome digging it turns out Microsoft put out an IE Update on 8/12 that dropped the mapping on client machines to aspx pages. Nice! And as many people who work with web pages can tell you “about:blank” is used as a white space filler on i-frames. Nice testing Microsoft! Well, enough of my complaining. There is an update that is automatically applied (if you have auto updates turned on) called KB953838. If you have IE 7 installed, you may not have the issue. If you have this issue you have a couple of options.

1. Upgrade to IE7.
2. Uninstall KB953838

a. When you get the prompt, Download it to your desktop.
b. Right click and open with.
c. Select Internet Explorer and check off always open with this program