caffeinator
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March 31st, @09:00PM
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Re: Microsoft warns of new attack on Word
I agree with you and jouno53  , but when I bought this used machine I did remove Office from this computer.
Yet those MSJet files are still there. Why? I have no idea.
Is something still needing them? If so, then why like most any Installer since 1998, did it not ask if I wanted them still as they may be in use?
Apparently, since it was used at 2am yesterday.
I was asleep so what app used it? WinDefender? MSupdate?
I have yet to find any way of removing Jet on it's own except just deleting the files, which obviously is a bad plan. Manual removal you say? Nope..check this: »support.microsoft.com/kb/q124902/
The computer came with no disks, no restore partition, nada. So, how?
More to my point, since I'd removed Office, naturally MS won't see fit to offer an update for the leftovers.
I don't see a real risk to me, as I don't even use a mail client on the PC, nor am I click-happy. Fact is, exe/doc/xls/etc. are blocked by my mailserver unless you Zip them.
BUT, I resent having this trail of acknowledged insecure crap left on this otherwise perfectly functional computer. You'd think the almighty Microsoft could create a un-installer that worked.
Since the workaround does nothing here, according to MS, I should just let it be...or upgrade to Vista. Ha!
With a P3-1Ghz/512Mb RAM Optiplex GX-150, that'd work really swell.
I swear, if I didn't need a windows PC for some things, I'd DBAN the ****** and install anything else.
Bleh. 
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| said by caffeinator :Yet those MSJet files are still there. Why? I have no idea. you might want to get a processor identifier like the free kind from winternal or whatever it's name is, I can't recall at the moment. it may help you ID whatever MSJ is doing.
the only other thing I can see the MSJ file coming into play for is if you attempt to download from MS any kind of template. I did that the other day because I couldn't find any decent 28 line pleading paper templates for OO. MS had one, but it first had to check my system before it would even think about letting me look at it. When it couldn't find Word, it brought me to a manual download screen for the template and then I just modified it to writer. Works great now.  |
