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Re: Belarc Advisor / Missing Security Updates
This-- KB901936? (Your link wouldn't load for me in Firefox)
»support.microsoft.com/kb/931906
If so, unless you're running BizTalk Server 2004, I'd say Microsoft has it right and Belarc is in error. |
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1 edit | said by dadkins  :Got any hidden updates? No hidden updates.
said by AB :This-- KB901936? (Your link wouldn't load for me in Firefox) » support.microsoft.com/kb/931906If so, unless you're running BizTalk Server 2004, I'd say Microsoft has it right and Belarc is in error. No, I'm not running Biztalk but I read a little about CAPICOM and it may have something to do with when I upgraded Mcafee security? When un-installed the older version using Mcafee's removal tool, it removed VBScript runtime and I had to reinstall it. It was right around the same time the Belarc started warning me?
Edit: I should have read further, Capicom is not available in XP
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| So you're saying that KB901936 is the correct number that Belarc is warning you about?
If so, again, I'd have to say that they have it wrong and Windows Update has it right.
What OS are you running? If you're just a regular user, I can't see where CAPICOM has any use for you.
There's an XML Core Services update, but apparently you already have that if you needed it.
»www.microsoft.com/technet/securi···042.mspx
Belarc is just a tool-- a reference. It's been wrong before.
Whether or not it is this time for you, I don't know-- but it sounds like it may be. |
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| XP, regular user.
I should have researched a little more before posting. I know now that Belarc is warning me about a security update for software I do not have on my machine.
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Dolphins,
your statement that CAPICOM is not available for Windows XP is incorrect. I have it on my WinXPSP2 Home system...actually there are three (!) copies of the essential bit, capicom.dll. I am not aware that any of them has been used, but the DLL is there. I got the update KB931906 by automatic updates in the May patch Tuesday 2007 episode. |
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| said by pudelein :Dolphins, your statement that CAPICOM is not available for Windows XP is incorrect. I have it on my WinXPSP2 Home system...actually there are three (!) copies of the essential bit, capicom.dll. I am not aware that any of them has been used, but the DLL is there. I got the update KB931906 by automatic updates in the May patch Tuesday 2007 episode. You're right, it's one of the May updates. Info about what it is and where it may have come from is here:
»www.microsoft.com/technet/securi···028.mspx
I also have XP Home SP2 and do not have that .dll on my system.
It's not supposed to have anything to do with XP that I can see, other than it may have been included as part of some SDK Redistributable, or perhaps tagged along with some VBS or .NET app.
If the .dll version is 2.1.01 or lower, then the update is necessary. |
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| said by pudelein :Dolphins, your statement that CAPICOM is not available for Windows XP is incorrect. I have it on my WinXPSP2 Home system...actually there are three (!) copies of the essential bit, capicom.dll. I am not aware that any of them has been used, but the DLL is there. I got the update KB931906 by automatic updates in the May patch Tuesday 2007 episode. You right, I got Capicom.dll in system32 folder. Now why does MS have conflicting web pages concerning this?
said by AB :You're right, it's one of the May updates. Info about what it is and where it may have come from is here: » www.microsoft.com/technet/securi···028.mspxI also have XP Home SP2 and do not have that .dll on my system. It's not supposed to have anything to do with XP that I can see, other than it may have been included as part of some SDK Redistributable, or perhaps tagged along with some VBS or .NET app. If the .dll version is 2.1.01 or lower, then the update is necessary. Ok now which one am I supposed to download... CAPICOM or Platform SDK Redistributable: CAPICOM?
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AB
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| You could always not download either of them, and set the killbit in the Registry yourself.
Follow the instructions carefully, and back up that Registry key before changing it.
Just a thought.
'No comment' about which I think you should download and install.  |
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| said by AB :You could always not download either of them, and set the killbit in the Registry yourself. Follow the instructions carefully, and back up that Registry key before changing it. Just a thought. 'No comment' about which I think you should download and install. If I don't resolve this soon, It's off to the chopping block. 
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| said by dolphins :If I don't resolve this soon, It's off to the chopping block. For me, you, or what?
So resolve it. Set that killbit. It's not tough-- just be careful to do it exactly, according to the instructions.
I'm also using a Compaq, btw, and also have an HP printer, yet I don't have that .dll anywhere on my machine. |
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| "Off to the chopping block" is my way of saying goodbye to Capicom.
I'm having a few cocktails right now and I don't want to do anything stupid, like I have in the past e.g. changing administrator password and not remembering it the next day. 
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| said by dolphins :. . I'm having a few cocktails right now and I don't want to do anything stupid, like I have in the past e.g. changing administrator password and not remembering it the next day. Sounds like the smart play. It'll still be there tomorrow.
And I'll just mention that I'm running the retail version of XP on this machine, not the OEM version that came with it-- for whatever that's worth.
Not that that has anything to do with setting the killbit, or anything else, necessarily. |
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