Micrtosoft Software Distribution Service 3.0 can automatically download & install if I do not use Microsoft Security Essentials? -Malware?

XP pro with Service Pack 3 on 10 years, Dell Dimension 4500.  I use NOT of MSE.  I use AVG, malware protection.  I authorize updates from Microsoft automatically download but I decide to install.  13/03/13, I noticed that my PC had set a new restore point called "Software Distribution Service 3.0". Checking Windows Update I found 8 updates which appear legitimate 3/13 but I did not knowingly take any action to install them.  Have I not malware?  If so, how can I recover?

Updates were:

KB2807986 for a Note

KB2687505 to the Visio Viewer

KB890830 for malicious...

KB982726 for Office 2010

KB2767886 also for Office 2010

KB2809289 for IE 8

KB2814124 for Silverlight

KB2553501 for filter Pack 2.0

Thank you

When you install Office 2010, Silverlight, Windows Live Essentials or Microsoft Security Essentials, you can make two changes:

1 Microsoft Update (vs Windows Update) becomes your update by default source (that is, if she had not already the default); [1] and...

2 automatic updates will reset the automatic configuration by default (that is, if one of the other options had been selected.)

[The above is specified in the EULA that you accept when you install one of the requests, but it is "buried" in the small print and difficult to anyone who bothers to read.]

Since you had MS Office 2010 installed for a while, chances are that Microsoft Update was already your default. So, it seems that #2 happened to you after you have installed Windows Live Mail (part of Windows Live Essentials) a few weeks ago (i.e. the or after 12 February).

If you have not already done so, do not hesitate to change your automatic updates affecting the 'download but do not automatically install... '. "option.

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[1] so that Windows Update provides updates specifically for Windows, Microsoft Update expands the service to download and install updates for other Microsoft software (MS Office 2010, Silverlight, Windows Live Essentials and Microsoft Security Essentials).

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