Andreas, See this MSKB to understand what the update is doing: MS09-073: Description of the security update for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003: December 8, 2009 [link] Specifically, the ” Functionality changes with this security update ” section.

MS Office 2003 Word Viewer on Vista 32bits No MS Office Package installed, neither 2003 nor any other. According to Windows Update history the SP3 for the Word viewer is installed two times: 1. WDVIEWSP3 Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Word Viewer 2003 2.

We’re running XP Professional and use forms we’ve developed in Word and attach Excel spreadsheets to them as a data source and mail merge them into documents.

Is KB968816 being offered by Windows Update? It most certainly does apply to your system. Even though you’ve upgraded to WMP 10, you cannot remove WMP 9.x which, by default, includes the vulnerable Runtime.

I have a problem with Microsoft Update. This has either occurred after installing IE8 or could be due to a little viral problem I had about the same time.

No! They start threads about U-**DUNG**-Tu and you certainly get your panties in a bunch when one is started! By the way, there were another 33 patches released over the weekend …