TSGL: MS July Update

[Ron Grant]

I have my settings to notify before downloading updates.
I do have KB951748 in my add/remove list. I don't remember specifically 
installing that, but I must have on 7/9.

I also got the single update for the MSRT a couple of days ago on one of 
my comps. No other updates with that.

What is going on?   . . . Not a clue, but your not alone!

Ron





H Davis wrote:
> 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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