I just installed the NEW Microsoft Security Update for Windows XP

[cthulu2016]

Posting this because there were a zilion articles this morning saying there would NOT be a patch

Despite Microsoft saying they would not do any more security patches for Windows XP, they decided the bad PR from the new IE security hole wouldn't be much helped by refusing to fix the problem for millions of XP users.

So there is an XP patch from Microsoft for the vulnerability.

I don't use IE much (prefer Chrome for most purposes) but figured I might as well fix the OMG! vulnerability.

If you use XP and have Internet Explorer installed your Automatic Updates may still be turned on, but if you don't know or want to fix the thing right away...

Go to windows update.

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

It should check to see that you have automatic update software. (Which you do unless you took steps to remove it somehow.)

Select EXPRESS. Follow instructions, if any.

[Control-Z]

1. Thanks for posting this.

I have one computer still running on XP.

[hlthe2b]

3. ditto... but I only enable it to home wifi long enough to install antiviral updates and occasionally

send myself an email or file (to my main laptop)

[bemildred]

2. I just unplugged that one from the net.

It's mainly for legacy applications anyway.

[RandoLoodie]

4. Windows and IE are viruses

[cthulu2016]

5. Okey-dokey. But being widely used "viruses" I think

this news may be of interest to some of the "infected"

[RandoLoodie]

6. I don't use them

I generally think of people who use them as "n00bs"

[Recursion]

7. Remember even if you use Chrome, IE is integral to the OS and must be patched

The dll that does most of IE's functions also does things for the desktop, folder display, etc., so you can't just say "I use Chrome" and ignore it; IE is still lurking way down in your operating system...

[cthulu2016]

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