My computer had to have a couple of transplants a few weeks back, and the guy who did the work (arthritis has ended my days using screwdrivers) used his copy of XP Home to make necessary changes to the registry (It also deleted some of my software). :smack: I’m finally getting everything back the way I want, but I downloaded a huge number of upgrades that MS insisted were absolutely essential!!!
I’ve now got them installed, but one of them has me puzzled. It’s MS XML 4.0 Parser SDK Properties. I did some research, and it appears that this is something to help MSIE work better at rendering fancy webpages.
Izzat so? Would that be why it put an icon on my desktop? I’m not a user of MSIE, and can’t imagine I ever will be; I’m happy as a clam with Mozilla. Can I remove this? It’s not like I’m hard-up for disk space, but I like to keep things clean.
SDK stands for Software Development Kit, and they are generally used by programmers in writing programs that use a particular technology (such as XML). You may have had a previous version of the SDK for some reason and the update for it installed the icon. It won’t hurt anything to uninstall the SDK.
Uh, there’s just one problem. It doesn’t say where it lives in the properties window. I finally tracked it down in a directory under Program Files, but there ain’t no uninstall. Can I get away with just deleting it? It didn’t show up on either the Remove Programs list or the MS components list, and I don’t want more problems.
I bet that happened because the guy who did my hardware work does lotsa repairs, and used his Windows disc instead of mine (I stupidly forgot to take it with). And I gotta admit, now I can’t do my own hardware work, he’s good. AAMOF, he’s better on that than software, AFAICT. OTOH, so am I. :grits teeth:
I wish now I’d waited about asking the other computer question. Just this afternoon I discovered that I’d imported a Kakworm embedded in old message files when I got this machine … two years ago.
:smack: :smack: :smack:
And, as far as I can tell, nobody’s got a Kakworm removal tool anymore that’s free. :dubious: And I just paid out everal hundred buck last month, with the couple of different problems that rose up and bit me, one fine November day.
I’m just glad I’m not responsible for anyone else’s holiday cheer this year, 'cause I ain’t very cheery.
Wow. Thanks. I wonder why Symantec’s people couldn’t have given me that? Maybe they’re not allowed? Hmmm. The very nice support person suggested I get MS to help me. Now, I know that MS is s’posta be working hard at giving better support and all that, but I can’t help but be skeptical about the odds of my actually getting much free help there.
I’ve downloaded the tools. Since my infection is with JS.KakWorm.G, I hope one of them works. I’ll report my results tomorrow. I was able to get the patch from the MS support site, but the infection must be removed first.
I’ve decided I’ve just gotta chill before I freeze a bearing or something, so I’m just hanging on the Board for a while, then bed. As for the other sites, I downloaded one of them (NoAdware - it had the highest rating on the site where I found it), but it didn’t find the worm; it was Symantec’s own website tools that found it (that gotta be accessed with MSIE :grumble, gripe:). What I can’t understand is why NAV never saw it in the last three years.
I was able to get the patch from the MS support site, but the infection must be removed first.