Running XP ?
The recent attacks have prompted Windows to release SP3 patch for XP.
Very unusual for any company to support a product years after they end of life a product must have been a major flaw.
Download Security Update for Windows XP SP3 (KB4012598) from Official Microsoft Download Center
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55245
Version:
4012598
File Name:
WindowsXP-KB4012598-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Date Published:
5/15/2017
File Size:
666 KB
KB Articles: KB4012598
Security bulletins:MS17-010
A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.
Very unusual for any company to support a product years after they end of life a product must have been a major flaw.
This from a now deceased friend who owned an ISP for 15 years... his take was it will take MS up to 2 decades , or possibly more, to replace all the XP based systems due to the penetration of XP into commercial 'point of payment' programs etc... think of all the corner stores, etc....
I'll bet it is tied to the latest Ransom Ware attacks and somebody BIG still using XP got bitten.
If there are BIG they use Unix
BCGov is Small?
Were sold a line & still cost's us !
Unix runs this :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVtBjFUfFLE
Sorry it's a break your wallet , but most are NOT windaz in the real working world
I think it is an importand topic, so i give my 5 cents to it ;-)
To make it clear, the link leads to the so called "Wannabe" update / patch for XP 32 bit
SP3 was already released since years, the heading is slightly misleading;)
It is a "patch" not the "SP" ;)
Just in case, if someone is looking for that patch and didn't know it exists or where to get it from -> also for other windos versions:
http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598
also for WES/POS and 2003/2008 and POS-modified XPs ((use the WES/POS) to get updates until 2019. But most POS-mods already have received the patch. My did hehe)
Many users have deactivated the update service of XP, after M$ support has ended. I guess they think, they are safe, no one sends them an contaminated update with malware or like that?
Rule #1: Set updates to "Download updates but install manually" so you can always check the KB first (don't 100% work in newer Windos, also if you hack w10 to do this, it will install some updates. That is not the safest way...)
XP 64 bit users will have to try the XP SP2 64bit or/and the 2003 patch, witch works. Dependent, if the XP64 was patched, to get updates from the 2003 server edition (same core files)
Thanks binkino
I updated & still use many XP here with only SP3 (no AV or updates ) they stay off the web , or some are xp on the net with coming her . no info , all backed up after build. Had a few bugs . but an image relay fixed / restored .