Strange Internet Explorer updates from year 2014 now appeared 6.5.2017
Hello,
Windows updates found 3 important updates for my IE today. It is strange bacause on other PC i have no updates available. It is found one by one, so i added one to exclusion, it finds another one. So i added all 3 to my exclusion list. What is wrong?
I experienced the same thing this morning when I checked Windows Update. It seems there are older updates that are being sent down the WU pipe dating back to 2012-2014 patches (security and non-security) for .NET 3.5.1 and cumulative updates for Internet Explorer 11. If you hide the most recent IE11 (Dec 2014) update, IE11 (Nov 2014) will appear and so on and so on. This is happening on multiple machines.
I wouldn't bother hiding those updates as there might be a cascade of other older updates appearing as a result. Hopefully this is just a glitch, and MS provides a solution if this turns out to be a wide-scale problem affecting other W7 users.
Thanks for answer. So i cannot do nothing and just wait for Microsoft fix this? What happen if some user install this? Those updates are marked "important" so they can be installed automaticaly. So they broke things?
I would just hold off or ignore Windows Updates until this issue is fixed. This might be fixed by the time Patch Tuesday (May 9, 2017) rolls around, but I would use caution until then.
I don't know what would happen if someone downloaded and installed those old updates, in particular KB3008923, as that update when it first appeared created some problems for a lot of W7 users.
I'm sure MS will eventually become aware, if there aren't already, of the problem. Until then I would just sit tight and let those updates sit where they are.