I would have thought that the best and safest option would be to toss these known dangerous programmes and replace them with similar ones that have far fewer vulnerabilities.

I found that Mepis works very well at a very good price. :>)

will they ever get it right & deliver, what the customers should have received in the first place without this endless round of patching?

The myriad of Linux "I told you so's"

Windows Vista Media Centre

Cannot start service now as get error "Class not registered" - all I did was apply these security patches, it was working fine beforehand.

Hmmmmmm ... I've got an old copy of Office on my machine and all I got in my March Updates (yesterday (3-11-08) was the March Malicious Software Removal Tool. I wonder why?!

@David L Hughes

The office patches are located on a different system. Google Officeupdate and click the office update for your version.

Mine have never been included on windows update. Always had to check if there were office updates separately.

Cheers,

Mike

MS Office was complete in 2000. If they spent their resources making that code base faster & more secure we wouldn't have this kind of crap. People want simple and reliable, not flashy and buggy.