Confirmation from Microsoft about the fix it for active x video and kb 973346

[robinb]

I just got off the phone with microsoft


if you installed the fixit pertaining to The vulnerability in Microsoft
Video ActiveX , this patch will not be offered kb973346
if it did not install properly you will see it
Microsoft told me I do not have to reinstall kb97336 unless I am seeing it.
If I am seeing it in WU then it did not install properly when the fixit was
used
I called 1866 PC Safety
robin

 

[gene]

I just got off the phone with microsoft


if you installed the fixit pertaining to The vulnerability in Microsoft
Video ActiveX , this patch will not be offered kb973346
if it did not install properly you will see it
Microsoft told me I do not have to reinstall kb97336 unless I am seeing it.
If I am seeing it in WU then it did not install properly when the fixit was
used
I called 1866 PC Safety
robin

Let's see if I understood that. If the recent fixit patch was correctly installed, then after MS or Windows Update completes its scan, update KB973346 will not show; otherwise, it will. I saw two patches today, neither of them 973346, meaning the previous fixit was ok.

Gene

 

[robinb]

Let's see if I understood that. If the recent fixit patch was correctly
installed, then after MS or Windows Update completes its scan, update
KB973346 will not show; otherwise, it will. I saw two patches today,
neither of them 973346, meaning the previous fixit was ok.

Gene

exactly gene

robin

 

[JJ]

These are the only 4 I got and no reboot?

Windows XP Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows XP
(KB973346) Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Windows Update

Windows XP Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2009 (KB890830)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Windows Update

Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB961371) Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Windows Update

Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB971633) Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Windows Update

 

[Alan D]

Great public service you did there, Robin - clears everything up nicely.
Thanks very much.

I'm offered the MSRT and two others - not the KB973346, so my previous fix
is OK.

Cheers,
Alan D

 

[Anonymous Bob]

I just got off the phone with microsoft


if you installed the fixit pertaining to The vulnerability in Microsoft
Video ActiveX , this patch will not be offered kb973346
if it did not install properly you will see it
Microsoft told me I do not have to reinstall kb97336 unless I am seeing it.
If I am seeing it in WU then it did not install properly when the fixit was
used
I called 1866 PC Safety
robin

It would be interesting to search your hard drive for "kb973346".

I found several references on mine system after the update.

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Please read "mine system" above as "my system".

(Sheepishly exit stage left.)

 

[robinb]

I called because I would have had to go now and reput it on 42 computers
which I really did not want to do unless I had no choice
robin

 

[robinb]

if you are on xp pro I did not have to reboot
but I had to on xp home
also you saw 973346 because either your fixit did not stick or you did not
put it on
I also saw 973346 in vista and was wondering because Microsoft originally
said it was only for xp. I guess they wanted to be safe then sorry
robin

 

[JJ]

I do run XP Pro with IE6 and I don't even remember doing any fix, so who
knows. God my mind is going-going-gone. LOL

Have a good one. JJ

 

[robinb]

friday is my B-day so I plan to have a very good one
too bad we cannot have a reverse b-day each year
robin

 

[JJ]

Well have a wonderful B-day, and yes, at my age...67 I could go for a
reversal. LOL

The mind is slowly, lately rapidly going. Enjoy, and TTYS...JJ

 

[Stu]

Fantastic JJ. A reversal could mean 76 at best I`m not far behind you.
I`ll be 66 next month - try reversing that. Part of the lost generation as we
say here. You must have experienced the sixties Flower Power, Dreadlocks ....
make love not war and a joint Oops! Have always thought, you are only as
old as you feel .....

Stu

 

[JJ]

Ya know Stu, that didn't dawn on me, now I am ageing myself badly. LOL I was
thinking to subtract a few years, like 30 years. ;-)

Nope, never did the flower power thing or many things in the 60's, was too
busy raising children. Obviously I saw all that stuff on tv but never a part
of it.

Your right, numbers are just that...numbers, but some days I feel like 107.
LOL Well you will be 66 next month, then in Sept. I outdo you again at
68...YIKES!

Have a swell day and TTYL. JJ THE OLD ONE! ;-)

 

[robinb]

hmm if I reverse the numbers will be 75- I like telling everyone I am 40, I
act that age so what is the harm? Only one day my grandkids are going to
figure out I am only 5years older than their daddy.
robin