172428 - cannot install after applying MS HTML Help security fix

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 167515

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Kim Ong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla

After apply the latest Microsoft Windows XP Security Fix (link here: 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-055.asp ), I cannot install Mozilla! I 
tried both 1.2a and 1.1. I unwisely uninstalled Mozilla 1.1 when I couldn't 
install Mozilla 1.2a over it. Now, I don't have a working Mozilla installation!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install the MS HTML Help Unchecked Buffer Security Fix
2.Try to install a new Mozilla build using Mozilla Setup
3.

Actual Results:  
The standard MS error pop-up will appear, offering to send the error to MS.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

see also bug 172356

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Try running the install in "compatibility" mode -- right click on the
executable, select the compatibility tab, and set the compatibility to Win98. If
that workaround fixes the problem then this is a duplicate of bug 167515
otherwise we'll have to dig deeper.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

How far into the install do you get before it crashes? Is it the install part
that's crashing, or Mozilla itself crashing at startup after the install.

Comment 4

[Kim Ong]

The problem did go away with the suggestion to set the installer to 
compatibility mode. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

reopen the dupe...

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167515 ***

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

v dupe of bug 167515