I recently did a clean install of Windows XP Pro on my computer and everything was working fine.

Yesterday, I did a Microsoft update and installed the latest patches. One of those patches I had apparently missed, so I installed that one, too.

Since the update, whenever I go to a site that has a movie file/flash file embedded in the page, I have to click the object once as if I'm selecting it, then I have to click it again in order to be able to use the controls.

I took a screen shot, and hopefully it'll make sense of what I'm trying to say. In the screen shot, I am watching the "10 Things I Hate About Commandments" trailer (heh) on College Humor. I positioned my mouse pointer over the movie as it began playing, and if you look closely there is a small checkered border around the entire movie. This is what happens everytime I go to play a video/flash file.

I tried using ImageShack to upload the screenshot, but I keep getting errors. Click here to see the image.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? If so, how do I fix it?

I am sure i remember reading somewhere about something to do with a security thing

It might be worth giving Microsofts knowlede base a look

What about trying to open it in Firefox to see if it just something that might have been built into IE

www.getfirefox.com

Ah, security? Ok, that's a good start! Have you any idea if there is a technical term I can use to describe what is happening to make my search easier?

Along the lines of Security in IE or Security IE patch something like that?

Read:

Here

Workaround patch

Note the workaround patch will be disabled with the June updates, so don't rely on that. It's only to give devs time to update their code to work properly with the patch, not to fix the symptoms.

Yeah, it's temporary. Just forgot to write that.

Read:

Here

Workaround patch

Ok, thanks! That worked....for now.