Re: MS Security patch doesn't "take" with successive scans
turbguy wrote:
| On Sep 27, 2:48 pm, "PCR" <pcr...@netzero.net> wrote:
|> turbguy wrote:
|>
|> | Running Win 98 SE,
|> |
|> | Upon visiting the Mocrosoft Windowns Update site, it scans my
|> | systems and says I need:
|> |
|> | "Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express 6 Service Pack 1
|> | (KB837009)"
|> |
|> | I do use OE (version 6.00.2800.1123),
|>
|> That is the correct version of OE-- it matches mine!
|>
|> | so I click on install, and it
|> | goes "through the motions". No reboot required...
|> |
|> | I scan again, and I get the SAME result, I need:
|> |
|> | "Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express 6 Service Pack 1
|> | (KB837009)"
|> |
|> | I check my installation history, and it indicates the Update was
|> | successfully installed!
|> |
|> | I re-install, and rescan, same result! What gives??
|>
|> It could be these three need to come in, in the following sequence...
|>
|> (a) Q330994
|> (b) Q837009
|> (c) Q823353 (This is 3rd, but no longer offered at Windows Update.)
|>
|> And, "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Install/Uninstall tab" for
|> me shows... Outlook Express Q823353
|> ...but it was Outlook Express Q837009
|> ...& before that Outlook Express Q330994.
|> ...I never took Outlook Express Q887797, which also could be
|> involved.
|>
|> Do you have any of the three/four? Then, uninstall whichever is in
|> there, & go see what happens at Windows Update. That might be the
|> full cure, but I guess visit the site yet once more afterwards.
|>
|> I think you want to end up with at least Q837009. But I have
|> Q823353, & Glee was once considering it.
|>
|> What shows up at... IE6, Help, About...?...
|>
|> SP1, Q313829, Q328970, Q328389, Q324929, Q810847, Q813951, Q816506,
|> Q813489, Q330994, Q818529, Q822925, Q828750, Q824145, Q832894,
|> Q837009, Q831167, Q823353, Q867801, Q833989, Q834707, Q889293,
|> Q867282, Q891781, Q890923, Q883939, Q896688, Q905915, Q912812,
|> Q916281, & Q918439.
|>
|> Note how all THREE of mine show up there... Q330994, Q837009,
|> Q823353... & in the sequence in which they were installed. It could
|> be sequence is important. (But only the last shows up in Add/Remove
|> Programs, meaning the first two were replaced.)
|>
|>
Uh-oh...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;887797
|> Cumulative update for Outlook Express (KB887797)
|> ...is an optional one (not offered at Windows Update) I currently do
|> not intend to take. I do not know I have the conditions of which it
|> speaks, & I do not like the rigmarole of activating bits/pieces of
|> it.
|
| I downloaded update KB837009 and ran it "offline". It stopped and
| told me that it was OE6 SP1 and won't install, seems I only have OE6,
| not SP1! Wonder why the update site thinks otherwise.....
|
| My add/remove list has "Microsoft Oultook Express 6" and "Outlook
| Express Q823353".
|
| IE Versions:; SP1; Q916281; q313829;
Well, I see PA Bear solved it. Glad to hear it. I'll pull that solution
into my Master Post. It's been a long time since anyone had that
KB837009 problem!
So... you no longer are getting those crashes involving MSTime.dll too?