Windows Automatic Updates: Security Update MSXML 4.0 - KB927978

Do we have a consensus as to what to do? If so, can someone please explain
it to me in words of one syllable, so that I can do it too. I suppose it's
too much to hope that Microsoft will fix it for us?

I tried to remove MSXML 4.0, but wasn't allowed to. But maybe that's as it
should be, because I hadn't the faintest notion of what I was doing!

Meanwhile, I shall have to continue to ignore my computer's suggestion that
I install the Security Updates!

Regards

Mack

Mack,

> I tried to remove MSXML 4.0, but wasn't allowed to.

The KB927978 update or the entire MSXML 4 package ?
Is KB927978 listed in Add/Remove Programs as
MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB927978) ?
Is KB925672 listed under Windows XP - Software Updates in Add/Remove ?
If so, uninstall it, restart the system, then allow KB927978 to install.
Restart the system.
Did that help ?

KB927978 supercedes KB925672 and is actually the entire MSXML package
rereleased with the vulnerability corrected.


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
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Mack wrote:

> Do we have a consensus as to what to do? If so, can someone please explain
> it to me in words of one syllable, so that I can do it too. I suppose it's
> too much to hope that Microsoft will fix it for us?
>
> I tried to remove MSXML 4.0, but wasn't allowed to. But maybe that's as it
> should be, because I hadn't the faintest notion of what I was doing!
>
> Meanwhile, I shall have to continue to ignore my computer's suggestion that
> I install the Security Updates!
>
> Regards
>
> Mack