TSGL: MS July Update

[The Computer Whisperer]

lol, should be fine, microsoft = clunky

2008/7/16 H Davis <hdavis1 at gmail.com>:

> To All,
>
> I'm using XP SP2 on 2 machines. I have my MS updater set to notify me
> for both downloading and installing.
>
> I got the notification for the July update a while ago which consisted
> of KB951748 and the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) only. I had
> seen comments on another list about problems with this update if you
> were using ZoneAlarm (and perhaps any 3rd party firewall). I checked the
> ZA forums and sure enough ZA had issued an update to correct the problem
> which was theirs and not MS's so there would be no MS fix coming. I
> installed the ZA update on one machine, waited a day and downloaded the
> update.
>
> I can't be sure what was actually downloaded because you don't get any
> real confirmation of that but when, on the next day, I got the
> notification that the updates were ready to install, I checked Custom
> Install so I could see what it planned to install and only the MSRT was
> there offering to be installed. I "installed" that and then checked the
> Add/Remove list to see if KB951748 had been installed clandestinely.
> Nope, not in the list.
>
> I didn't know what to make of this but I went to the MS site and
> downloaded the 748 update and installed it manually. It now appeared in
> the Add/Remove list. All seemed well.
>
> Yesterday I installed the ZA update in the second machine and today
> downloaded the July MS update. Both items were offered for downloading.
> When it said it was ready to install the 748 part was missing again but
> the MSRT was there. I haven't installed the 748 update manually yet.
>
> Soooooooo, What's going on? Have any of you folks seen this problem? If
> some of you have updates set to full automatic, do you have KB951748 in
> your Add/Remove list? Even if you get notifications as I do but use the
> Express Install option you would probably not have noticed that the 748
> part was missing; do you have KB951748 in your Add/Remove list? If you
> updated when your computer shut down did you notice if there were 1 or 2
> updates?
>
> Everything seems to work properly on the one machine that I updated
> manually but, as with all things MS, when things don't go exactly as
> they should I get a sinking feeling right in the pit of my stomach.
>
> TIA,
>
> H Davis
>
>
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>
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