Edward,

Suzanne is a very helpful person. You are being "snotty" and throwing a fit
because you can't get what you want. Everyone who answers questions here is
a volunteer, a fellow user of Word, not a Microsoft Employee. This update
has caused a lot of people problems. It has greatly increased the number of
questions appearing on these boards. People are trying to pass on
information as they get it. Your posting the same question numerous times
slows down the response to others, without any purpose. Your question was
answered, correctly, by volunteers, on a holiday weekend.

Yes, removing the update exposes you to a security risk. It is your call.
You can take the exposure and use the product with the exposure, or shut
down your use of Word and Excel and wait. We don't work for Microsoft and we
don't like the situation any better than you do.

She did not call you names or otherwise denigrate you. That you are You owe
her, and the rest of us, an apology.

By the way, are you the Edward H. Sebesta who is tracking the
Neo-Confederate movement?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Sebesta
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

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"Edward H. Sebesta" wrote in
message ...
I expected that there was likely no fix, but I would ask anyways, being
that
this is not my area of expertise. The worst that I thought could happen
that
I would find no answer. Obviously you have revealed that I underestimated
the
worst.

Instead I would encounter a snotty, arrogant individual who really had no
value added information, but was preoccupied with showing off how smart
they
could make themselves seem even at the expense of denigrating others.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Well, you can read the KB article and assess the danger for yourself. Did
you really expect to get an answer for all of the half a dozen or more
times
you posted this question?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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all may benefit.

"Edward H. Sebesta" wrote in
message ...
How clever of you Suzanne. Really useless response.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It doesn't expose you to any more security problems than you had the
minute/day/month/year before you installed the update.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Edward H. Sebesta" wrote
in
message ...
Doesn't this exposure you to security problems. And also, could
this
cause
additional problems? Why can't Microsoft fix this.

"Carol" wrote:

Hi David:

You can remove the offending update from Add/Remove Programs,
where
it
shows
as "Security Update for Windows XP (KB908531)". Make sure the
"show
updates"
box at the top is ticked or you won't see hotfixes in the list.


--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"DAVID I." wrote:

I can't save files to existing folders... can't even do a "save
as"...
the
EXCEL 2003 Program gets to a "Not Responding" state and I have
to
crash it.
I was able to save a file to the "My Documents" folder. The
same
thing
happened to my Word Program. This all happened after I did the
latest
security update to the XP program. I "removed" and then
reinstalled
the
Office 2003 program but the problem still exists.