In message , John K.Eason
writes:
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"Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - November 2018 (KB890830)"

fair enough.

The lower, large, box says:

"Prerelease Version of Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Windows XP
Professional, Home, Media Center, or Tablet PC Edition

Yes. I got the EULA and 'Prerelease bla bla...' alert, but assumed it
said Windows
7 SP2 so let it continue as normal. It's just the usual update as far
as I can see
and ran as normal.

I don't think I've seen any hint of a 7 SP2; it seems unlikely, as MS
fairly clearly want to kill 7. (Plus there's the fact that the selection
options for this "update" - and the upper box - said it was the MSRT for
November 2018.)

ISTR seeing that once before although certainly not regularly.

I'm letting it proceed. I do have an image from not _too_ long ago (-:.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die -
attributed to Carrie Fisher by Gareth McLean, in Radio Times 28 January-3
February 2012