Re: repeated requests to download 823980
From: VJ (vsubra_ma_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/18/03
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:31:44 -0700
I have the exact same problem. Already installed the patch
3 times. If you figure it out, please let me know.
Thanks.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have had exactly the same problem.
>
>I have installed critical updates all along, so I first
installed
>MS03-026: Security Update for Windows XP (823980) on
July 17, 2003,
>when it was first offered. This installation shows up in
my Windows
>Update Installation History as "Successful".
>
>Yesterday, I received a popup notice from Automatic
Update saying that
>a new update -- 823980 -- was ready to install. So I
installed it
>again, and that installation is also reported under
Installation
>History as "Successful".
>
>This morning, the same thing happened all over again, I
installed the
>patch once again, and that installation is also reported
as
>"Successful".
>
>I also checked for critical updates yesterday, and was
told I needed
>(again!) the blaster patch, 823980. So I installed it
once more, such
>installation again being reported under Installation
History as
>"Successful".
>
>So I now have four "successful" installations of this
patch.
>
>I have never had any symptoms of the blaster worm.
>
>My questions are these:
>
>1. Why does Microsoft (both through automatic update
popups and also
>when I check for critical updates) keep telling me that I
need this
>patch, when I have already installed it successfully
several times?
>
>2. Am I now protected from the blaster worm?
>
>Robert Lawrence
>
>
>On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:27:38 -0700, "Stewart Nelson"
><kk7ka@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 7/31, I visited Windows Update site and installed
>>various critical updates, including one that appears
>>in installation history as
>>"Security Update for Windows XP (823980)" .
>>On 8/16, Automatic Updates offered to download
>>"MS03-026: Security Update for Windows XP (823980)" .
>>I thought this might be newer version, so I accepted.
>>There were no error messages, but it did not ask me to
>>reboot, so I suspect that nothing got installed.
>>Today, Automatic Updates again requested to download
>>MS03-026... I accepted but the same thing happened.
>>There are now two entries for that in the history.
>>WINDOWS folder has a folder named
>>$NtUninstallKB823980$ .
>>
>>1. Am I protected from the vulnerability?
>>2. How can I stop the repeated downloads?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Stewart
>
>
>Please reply to this newsgroup only.
>.
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