Microsoft Windows 98 Update: DHTML Edit Control

From Microsoft:

Download this component to prevent a hacker from reading files on your hard drive.

This update eliminates a vulnerability in DHTML Edit control, an ActiveX control, which is distributed with Internet Explorer 5 and that can be downloaded for use in Internet Explorer 4.0. The vulnerability could allow someone to read information that you have loaded into the control, and it also could allow files with known names to be copied from your local hard drive.

This is the same issue as DHTML Edit Control Update on the Microsoft security Website. For more details, please see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS99-011.