Surprise! Windows Updates

From: Angus Scott-Fleming (angussf_at_GEOAPPS.COM)
Date: 05/18/05

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    Early this morning I was logged on remotely to a Windows 2000
    Server that I manage and a Windows XP box on the same network
    checking their Windows Update status, and when I did a manual
    WU scan, both of them needed a "critical" update to Windows
    Installer 3.1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893803 (Last
    Review: May 13, 2005). My own XP box needed that AND an
    update to Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1,
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=867460 (Last Review: May
    12, 2005). Both of these post-date the May Windows Update
    release (last Tuesday, May 10), which all machines had already
    had installed.

    Neither of these shows up on the MS Security Bulletin page or
    on the Security Advisories page.

    Anyone else come across these? I have my systems set to
    download updates automatically but not to install them, and
    just as I was typing this message the Windows Installer 3.1
    update appeared in the automatic-updates-are-ready- to-install
    icon on my XP box. However, the update to .NET did NOT appear
    in the automatic update while it DID appear when I did a
    manual WU run.

    Anyone else seen this or have more info?

    Angus 

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