Security Cover for XP machines (not SP1 or 2)

[Fr. Gregory Hallam]

Now that MS has announced that it will only protect XP SP2 browsers ....
see here ...

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5378366.html

..... will it only be SP2 that delivers the fixes or the humble "old"
original XP Home as well for users such as myself who don't want to
upgrade to SP2?

 

[Craig]

Hey Greg,

Updates for the OS is different than updates for the
Internet Browser. You will see them listed separately at
the Windows Update Site.

Sincerely,

Craig McIntosh
GNIS IT Support
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Fr. Gregory Hallam]

Hey Greg,

Updates for the OS is different than updates for the
Internet Browser. You will see them listed separately at
the Windows Update Site.

Sincerely,

Craig McIntosh
GNIS IT Support
(e-mail address removed)



SP2 browsers ....


humble "old"


don't want to

Thanks Craig ... but will I still be able to get both if I only have XP
unadorned?

 

[Guest]

This maybe helpful …

http://www.fixyourwindows.com/windowsxpsolutions.htm#SpywareProtection

Good Luck!
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How to successfully install Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/winxpsp2install.htm

How to optimize Windows XP, 2000, ME
for the best performance (Step-by-step Visual Guide):
http://www.fixyourwindows.com

 

[Fr. Gregory Hallam]

This maybe helpful …

http://www.fixyourwindows.com/windowsxpsolutions.htm#SpywareProtection

Good Luck!
---
How to successfully install Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/winxpsp2install.htm

How to optimize Windows XP, 2000, ME
for the best performance (Step-by-step Visual Guide):
http://www.fixyourwindows.com






:

Thanks for all those links. Doing all those steps and making all those
checks lies within my competence. However, perhaps a full day's work is
involved, an intermediate knowledge of PC's and a logical frame of mind.
Does MS seriously expect ALL pre-SP2 XP licence holders to be able to
deal with this?! User friendly computing? You must be joking. Most
people will install without researching all of this and come unstuck.
The rest, knowing, will shrug and wait until they change their PC. I
have already followed the advice on the installing SP2 web site. Keep
your system secure and don't use IE. Works for me.

Revent convert to Mozilla,

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks for all those links. Doing all those steps and making all those
checks lies within my competence. However, perhaps a full day's work is
involved, an intermediate knowledge of PC's and a logical frame of mind.
Does MS seriously expect ALL pre-SP2 XP licence holders to be able to
deal with this?! User friendly computing? You must be joking.

I do not go along with much of what r has to say, and definitely not
with some things he suggests.

Two points:
Support for browsers is limited to the systems in which the browsers are
'native'. So there is support for IE 6 under XP, but not where it has
been installed on 98 or ME.

Second, most of the troubles in installing SP2 arise from doing it on a
heavily contaminated machine. It is essential to check in advance with
good up to date AV and AntiSpyware - even the best systems can be
contaminated. Also there are some things that may have been installed
that modify system files, or assume things about them that are not
guaranteed to be stable from one version to the next (eg specific
addresses). You need to be rid of these. One example, for SP1, was any
installation of StylesXP - or anything else that modifies Windows themes
or the boot screens. And any utility things like Norton. Microsoft
cannot know of what such programs have introduced, and Beta testers may
well have had the sense not to have them around.

As a clear example of this for SP2, see
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;886590
where Microsoft has put out a means of removing adware associated with
installing 'TV Media'