Thor Larholm has worked with MicroSoft in at least one patch for IE (I really am surprised you never heard of him)
Acknowledgments

Microsoft thanks David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software Ltd. and Thor Larholm, Security Researcher, PivX Solutions, LLC (http://www.pivx.com) for reporting the Buffer Overrun in HTML Help ActiveX Control to us and working with us to protect customers.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...n/MS02-055.asp
Perhaps that is where the
It's an advertisement....
steps back in to the discussion
But I dont feel the post is an advertisment to the QwikFix, it has two more links in it.
It gives you enough information to do it by hand.
I agree that you should prevent installing software from untrusted company.

Why should I even bother to make Microsoft stuff work
Unless you pWn a pirated version, you paid enough for it to use it.

just delete/uninstall and use Opera or whatever.
That is a quick and dirty way of dealing with a problem