Office 2003 SP3 - installed even though I NEVER have had Office 2003? New PC built ONLY yesterday wi

[Rod]

Office Update KB923618 - Office 2003 SP3 - INSTALLED ITSELF via Windows
Update this morning even though I NEVER had any Office 2003 on this brand
new HDD, with clean Vista Home Premium SP1/Office 2007 SP1 PC that I built
only yesterday......WHAT THE.....???????????????????? It loaded itself
(presumably???) to address XML/security issues? ALL these??????? WHY? Or am
I missing the bleeding obvious??

I would genuiely appreciate anyone's advice/thoughts on this...

It's a rollup of Office 2003 SP1, SP2 and a cumulation of other
fixes/updates:

List of issues that the service pack fixes
Office 2003 SP3 fixes the issues that are described in the following
Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:
938790 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938790/) Issues that are fixed in
Excel 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3
938792 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938792/) Issues that are fixed in
Office 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3
938802 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938802/) Issues that are fixed in
Outlook 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3
938801 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938801/) Issues that are fixed in
PowerPoint 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3
938799 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938799/) Issues that are fixed in
Word 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 3

Security bulletins that are associated with the service pack
Office 2003 SP3 addresses the issues that are described in the following
Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:
940965 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940965/) MS07-044: Vulnerability in
Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution
936227 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936227/) MS07-042: Vulnerability in
Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution
927198 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927198/) MS07-002: Vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution
922581 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922581/) MS06-062: Vulnerabilities
in Office could allow remote code execution
924191 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924191/) MS06-061: Vulnerabilities
in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution
910729 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910729/) MS06-054: Vulnerability in
Microsoft Publisher could allow remote code execution
922968 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922968/) MS06-048: Vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Office could allow remote code execution
915384 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915384/) MS06-039: Vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Office filters could allow remote code execution
917284 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917284/) MS06-038: Vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Office could allow remote code execution
917285 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917285/) MS06-037: Vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution
916768 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916768/) MS06-028: Vulnerability in
Microsoft PowerPoint could allow remote code execution
917336 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917336/) MS06-027: Vulnerability in
Microsoft Word could allow remote code execution
905413 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905413/) MS06-012: Vulnerabilities
in Microsoft Office could allow remote code execution
901190 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/901190/) MS06-009: Vulnerability in
the Korean Input Method Editor (IME) could allow elevation of privilege
902412 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902412/) MS06-003: Vulnerability in
TNEF decoding in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange could allow remote
code execution

Previously released updates that the service pack includes
Office 2003 SP3 includes the following previously released updates:

924423 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924423/) Description of the updates
for Outlook 2003 and for Office 2003 MUI Pack: March 15, 2007
842532 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842532/) Description of Office 2003
Service Pack 1
887616 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887616/) Description of Office 2003
Service Pack 2
892843 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892843/) Description of the security
update for Outlook 2003: January 10, 2006
913807 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913807/) Description of the update
for Outlook 2003: March 14, 2006
924424 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924424/) Description of the security
update for Office 2003: October 10, 2006
914455 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914455/) Description of the security
update for Office 2003, for Project 2003, and for OneNote 2003: July 11,
2006
923097 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923097/) Description of the update
for Office 2003: October 10, 2006
923272 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923272/) Description of the security
update for Office 2003: October 10, 2006
919029 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919029/) Description of the update
for Office 2003: November 14, 2006
894542 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894542/) Description of the security
update for Publisher 2003: September 12, 2006
921566 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921566/) Description of the security
update for Office 2003: August 8, 2006
905756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905756/) Description of the security
update for Excel 2003: March 14, 2006
917334 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917334/) Description of the security
update for Microsoft Office Word 2003: June 13, 2006
917151 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917151/) Description of the security
update for Office 2003: July 11, 2006
918419 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918419/) Description of the security
update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003: July 11, 2006
916518 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916518/) Description of the security
update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003: June 13, 2006
913571 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913571/) Description of the updates
for Office 2003: March 14, 2006
924886 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924886/) Description of the update
for Office 2003: December 12, 2006
905645 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905645/) Description of the security
update for Office 2003: February 14, 2006
920103 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920103/) Description of the update
for InfoPath 2003: August 8, 2006
925251 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925251/) Description of the update
for Office 2003: February 13, 2007
936048 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936048/) Description of the security
update for Office 2003: August 14, 2007
940602 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940602/) Description of the security
update for Excel 2003: August 14, 2007

Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack

Office 2003 SP3 also includes updates for the Microsoft Office 2003
Multilingual User Interface Pack. For more information about the earlier
updates for the Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack that
are included in Office 2003 SP3, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1 for Multilingual User Interface Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f682ab1c-5be8-476d-b439-196412223cda
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f682ab1c-5be8-476d-b439-196412223cda)
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 for Multilingual User Interface Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...66-2C4D-486B-A0DE-099E96AE21A5&displaylang=en
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...66-2C4D-486B-A0DE-099E96AE21A5&displaylang=en)

Rgds
Rod
Perth

 

[Rod]

COULD it be because I have opted to save Word docs in old .doc format ant
not .docx and Excel in .xls not .xlsx?

Nuts...

 

[Rod]

No-one got any clues about this??????? Too hard basket? What if I deleted
this update???

Rgds
Rod

 

[Rod]

and so much for THAT theory....it has No uninstall option anyway whne listed
in the Installed Updates area...(unlike all other Updates that a right click
will give me the option to Uninstall) !!!

BUT listed in Add/Remove PROGRAMS though is a Microsoft Office 2003 WEB
COMPONENTS item....maybe that has something to do with tthis strange (to me)
Office 2003 Important Update ???

strange indeed...

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Rod,

Yes, the Office 2003 web components installation can trigger Office 2003 updates being offered and whether they are downloaded and
then installed 'automatically' depends on your settings at http://update.microsoft.com. For the future you may want to change to
have the settings download but then ask before installing.

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and so much for THAT theory....it has No uninstall option anyway whne listed
in the Installed Updates area...(unlike all other Updates that a right click
will give me the option to Uninstall) !!!

BUT listed in Add/Remove PROGRAMS though is a Microsoft Office 2003 WEB
COMPONENTS item....maybe that has something to do with tthis strange (to me)
Office 2003 Important Update ???

strange indeed... >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*