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Microsoft yanks bad Outlook patches-of-patches KB 3191849,3213654,401042

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If you have Auto Update turned on, the patches are still doing their dirty work.
I just received word from Gunter Born that Microsoft has pulled three of its Outlook patches:
As I mentioned last week, Microsoft still hasn’t fixed any of the Office 2007 bugs it introduced in the June security patches.
Microsoft has posted a hodgepodge of manual fixes for the seven identified and acknowledged bugs in its June Office security patches.
For those of you with Automatic Update turned on: Remember, Auto Update will install patches, but it won’t uninstall them. There’s no specific recommendation that you uninstall the yanked patches — indeed, there’s no description of the problems caused by the latest round — but earlier versions of the bad patches-of-patches had a nasty habit of crashing Outlook.
Automatic Update? Bah.

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