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Forum Thread: How To: Fix PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (PPTVIEW.EXE) when it is dete...
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And, this specific program: Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007 |
| spectralkinesis | How To: Fix PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (PPTVIEW.EXE) when it is detected as Insecure. |
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17th Dec, 2009 23:15 |
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Ranking: 0 Posts: 5 User Since: 11th Dec, 2009 System Score: N/A Location: N/A |
I came up with a simple fix for this problem - just install the application. THE PROBLEM: Secunia was reporting PPTVIEW.EXE as insecure. It was mind boggling, as I had never installed Powerpoint Viewer 2007 - only the full version of Office 2007 Professional. The problem here is that Powerpoint Viewer 2007 is not actually installed on the local machine. Therefore Microsoft Update can't detect any available patches for PPTVIEW.EXE since it isn't installed, with all of the necessary registry entries and extra files to be patched up. The reason the Office suite has the PPTVIEW.EXE included in the %Program Files%\Microsoft Office\Office12\ directory is so PPTVIEW.EXE can be embedded when the PUBLISH & PACKAGE TO CD command is invoked. THE FIX: 1.) Download Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa... 2.) Install Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007. 3.) Run Windows Update - the first time I ran it there were 4 Security updates to be installed. 3.) Run Windows Update again - there were an additional 4 Security updates to be installed. 4.) Rerun Secunia - the application may now be detected as the latest version. The first time I did this, Secunia did not detect PPTVIEW.EXE as the latest version, even when I manually verified the pptview.exe version myself. The version number shows 12.0.6502.5000, but Secunia wasn't that quick on the uptake. What I did to fix this: 1.) Rename PPTVIEW.EXE to PPTVIEW.EXE.BAK. 2.) Secunia detected the filename change and reported the application as uninstalled. 3.) Rename PPTVIEW.EXE.BAK to PPTVIEW.EXE 4.) Secunia then detected the presence of PPTVIEW.EXE and picked up the new, latest and greatest, not insecure version number. Cliffs: Download & Install Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Run Windows Update until there are no more updates to install. Maybe you'll have to rename the offending .exe twice. ... Profit! |
| bpowersPMTV | RE: How To: Fix PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (PPTVIEW.EXE) when it is detected as Insecure. | ||||||||
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21st Jan, 2010 14:09 | ||||||||
| Score: 2 Posts: 1 User Since: 21st Jan 2010 System Score: N/A Location: N/A |
possibly a dumb question, but.. if you have full MS Office 2007 on your computer, including full version of Power Point 2007, do you NEED to Download Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2007 to satisfy Secunia evaluations?? | ||||||||
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| Mavone | RE: How To: Fix PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (PPTVIEW.EXE) when it is detected as Insecure. | ||||||||
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29th Jan, 2010 11:30 | ||||||||
| Score: 1 Posts: 1 User Since: 19th Aug 2009 System Score: N/A Location: US |
Thanks a lot. That took care of that issue. I could not get Secunia to see the latest version of the viewer, but once renamed, Secunia updated to 100% secure and remained that way when renaming back to exe. | ||||||||
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| mulle78 | RE: How To: Fix PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (PPTVIEW.EXE) when it is detected as Insecure. | ||||||||
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8th Mar, 2010 18:49 | ||||||||
| Score: 1 Posts: 12 User Since: 8th Mar 2010 System Score: N/A Location: N/A |
thx a lot!!!!!! | ||||||||
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