Try asking them here x-posted to: windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Frank Booth Snr" wrote:
|I have win2k and IE/OE6. Automatic Updates downloads some security
| software which screws up OE6. Consequently my address book disappears,
| and I cannot respond to any email without error message telling me OE6
| is corrupted. When I re-install IE6/OE6 before this update, everything
| works fine, then AU kicks in again and if I install the updates, then
| the same problem recurs.
|
| Apart from switching off AU has anybody else had this problem and
| resolved it?
|