Recent MS update that **cannot be removed** if installed

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[library user]

Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB973688)

Size: 5.4 MB

Install this update to prevent applications from sending too many HTTP requests while a well-known Document Type Definition (DTD) is included. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed.

[library user]

Is this ok to install? I have never seen an update which says "Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed."

[ViLaLuz]

I installed it yesterday. Hmmmmmm.

[TommyDale]

From Microsoft, an explanation why it is needed:

When an application uses MSXML to process XHTML, redundant retrieval requests for well-known DTD files from the W3C Web server cause XHTML parsing to fail on a Windows-based computer

So if you don’t mind this potential problem, then don’t install it.

[aft_lizard]

I am sure it is, haven’t read anything out there to say otherwise. Now I am sure you will still be able to read xml documents if you don’t install it.

[Never on my watch]

Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed.

I seem to remember this line scrolling across the bottom of my TV screen during Obama's inauguration.

[rarestia]

Actually, a LOT of MS patches can’t be uninstalled without uninstalling subordinate patches or screwing up a COM descriptor or corrupting a DLL.

I installed the patch you mentioned on my machines, and they’re running fine. It sounds like a patch to help prevent DOS attacks on sites with valid DTDs.

[library user]

It seems to be related to another update included in the bundle, which is the one I've highlighted below. However **this one** doesn't say it cannot ever be removed and it's 1.5MB in size, so it's obviously different but similar to the one which is primary to the discussion.

[library user]

I seem to remember this line scrolling across the bottom of my TV screen during Obama's inauguration.

LOL.

[omega4179]

Size: 5.4 MB

Install this update to prevent applications from sending too many HTTP requests while a well-known Document Type Definition (DTD) is included. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LOL! Good one! :)

[mysterio]

I think I installed it yesterday, since I have auto update.

Is it to prevent your computer from being used as part of a botnet or something?

[DCurts]

There is a solution to all your windows problems: Ubuntu Linux

There's a learning curve, but Ubuntu is pretty awesome. If I could get my windoze games to run under Linux, I'd dump M$ windoze for good.

[PIF]

Or, alternately, you could get a Mac and run all three...

[CriticalJ]

“There is a solution to all your windows problems: Ubuntu Linux”

I have tried dozens of times to install linux on a laptop. I can get it to run on thumb drives, cd’s and dvd’s, and in a partition. I cannot get it to run as the primary with one partition to save my life. It would not boot. I have spent hours pouring over websites giving instructions on how to make it work.

Maybe I’ll give it a try again soon. It’s been about a year since I last tried it.

[DonaldC]

“Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed.”

This is not uncommon with MS patches.