Re: msxml4.dll

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Robin Bignall;4114168 Wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:29:47 +0000, Robin Bignall
<docrobin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:49:44 +0000, bertieboy
<mtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <Guihan.3judzd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Guihan
<Guihan.3judzd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Guihan;4109310 Wrote:
I also tried everything on that Advisory 23655. After that, I
tried XML
Core Services Update KB927978, mentioned in a Microsoft Service
Bulletin. Nothing seems to update these particular dll files.
There is
no obvious way to figure out which (if any) applications are using
these
files, but there are plenty of warnings about the dangers in
simply
trying to delete them. Within Kaspersky, there does not appear to
beany
way to quarantine them (other than disabling the monitoring of
ALL
vulnerabilities).

I see this as a Microsoft problem, and it would be really friendly
of
them to take a careful look at it and come up with a solution.

I finally worked out how to quarantine these troublesome files in
Kaspersky (I had been trying to do them all in a batch instead of
one-by-one). I am not happy about this solution as I fear it may
come
back to bite me during an attempted Microsoft update. Also, I may
yet
discover that some older application no longer works. But for now, I
no
longer get the vulnerability reports. I would still like to know how
to
update or delete them properly.



Along with loads of other people in the Kaspersky forum, I managed to

get rid of my vulnerabilities by following their advice. I think I
just
deleted the entries about 2 weeks ago, not had any problems since.

http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=92620

There seemed to be quite a few Kaspersky users who were a little
confused in that thread, but it seems to net out to using add /
delete
programs to remove old versions of msxml4 and 6, just as one should
clear out old versions of Java. I've done it, rebooted, checked with
microsoftupdate and am now about to run a full K9 scan

That didn't completely clear them. I then deleted any examples of
msxml4 and 6 from system32 that had dates before 2008. K9 still found
modules in various places, so I simply found the files via K9 and
deleted all of them. Rebooted. Checked with windowsupdate. Ran K9
again. Clean.

It appears that critical updates do not remove old versions of these
files when it updates them, just as Java does not remove old versions.

Thanks very much Bertieboy for your help with this problem.
--
Robin
(BrE)
Herts, England

Thanks for the advice. It seems the K9 'sniffer dog' had dug up some
old bones. When I ignored all the warnings against doing so, I deleted
all those old DLLs. The sky did not fall in, and, at last, the
vulnerability warnings have gone.


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