Secunia

bermary

I have looked on revo uninstaller to see what programs are on there and what it shows is msxml- 4.0 sp2 and msxml-4.0 sp3 parser both of these are on twice,don't ask me why.

Geep

I suggest your best course is to delete/uninstall all the 4.0 versions, and (if you wish) install fresh version 4.5. That way, you will be up-to-date with minimal possibility of errors. NET is known to cause many difficulties when updating, and sometimes it's best to bite the bullet.

The best tool to use for uninstallation is called Revo uninstaller, since this will remove most of the leftovers from programs, whilst as part of the process will use either the normal Windows uninstaller or that for the program itself. It offers four levels of removal, and I normally use the third level, Moderate. It should find all the various versions, and it will then ask you to confirm deletion. By the nature of NET, there will be many files, so don't be alarmed if you get as many as a couple of hundred!

Even using Revo you may have problems installing NET 4.5, and there is another tool which just may be needed in that case. Hopefully not, but if that is the case, post again.

bermary

I think I will leave it as it is,it is getting far too complicated for me and I don't want to do any damage,will it be ok to just ignore the secunia warning, Thankyou to all who have taken the time to help me.

Geep

It will be OK to ignore if you have auto update enabled for Windows, and that is not telling you there is a problem or some update has not been installed.

John_Gray

I think you'll find this is a false positive from Secunia.
Just ignore the Secunia message.

Mercenary

I had this flagged repeatedly some time ago and tried to download from Microsoft, install etc. I had to do a System Restore afterwards as my PC was flaky following the attempted 'update' (which didn't work anyway).
After doing a lot of Googling I just set Secunia to ignore it.

Wammer

Click on the Further Information or whatever it is called in Secunia. I had this more than a year ago and found a solution that way, but I haven't used Secunia for a while.

alanwsg

There's several long threads on the Secunia forums about this, E.g. ...

http://secunia.com/community/forum/thread/show/15049/update_msxml_4
http://secunia.com/community/forum/thread/show/15050/microsoft_core_xml_services_msxml_4_x

Consensus seems to be,
-- there's NO security threat.
-- the message is valid as MS has declared V4 "End-of-life"
-- You shouldn't install the suggested updates as they don't remove the old version and may cause problems.
-- You shouldn't un-install V4 as it may break some programs.
-- Just set Secunia to ignore MSXML V4