Failure of Excel critical update KB9184 to install

After trying to install upadte KB918419 for Excel, Windows update reports
"Updates were unable to be successfully installed"
"the following updates were not installed:"
"Security update for Excel 2003 (KB918419)"

the system continues to notify me that updates are ready to be installed,
but on every occasion produces this message.

Any ideas what is wrong, and what I can do to overcome it?

David5066 <> wrote:

> After trying to install upadte KB918419 for Excel, Windows update
> reports "Updates were unable to be successfully installed"
> "the following updates were not installed:"
> "Security update for Excel 2003 (KB918419)"
>
> the system continues to notify me that updates are ready to be
> installed, but on every occasion produces this message.

Disable all third-party anti-malware applications such as SpySweeper, and
try again.

Open any Office application, pull down the Help menu, and select "Detect and
Repair".

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Robin Walker [MVP Networking]