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IE8 on Windows 7 - Link To MSI causes about:blank to open as well.

I'm maintaining an intranet page with installation instructions.

Annoyingly in Windows 7 / IE8 when I click on a link that contains an MSI the page jumps to about:blank - this didn't happen in XP! The href part is below, I tried target=_blank but no joy!.

href="subffolder/amis.msi"

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