OT - MS's site with XP and new malware patch?

So given current malware and fact MS decided to release a patch even for
XP I decided I'd update my two old pc's still running XP and get the
patch.

Basically have failed for both. Neither pc seems to be able to get thru
the hurdle of installing whatever ActiveX control etc. is required and I
end up repeatedly at the "can't display page" displayed.

Is there some direct download for this new ransomware patch for XP?

What version of IE is last version XP will run and where's a direct
download link for that.

Please - no "upgrade pcs to newer OS version" comebacks. One of them is
an old laptop kept as a pc for quests in back bedroom, collect email,
listen to music or watch a video etc. It seldom gets turned on. Second
is solely for multi-media it retrieves over shared folders on in house
network and feeds a tv and stereo in rec room. Neither has the real
balls to cope with Win7, some drivers (especially for the laptop) may be
problamatic etc. and even with that valid excuse I'd not put Vista on
anything if I can help it.

On 05/16/2017 11:39 AM, pjp wrote:


So given current malware and fact MS decided to release a patch even for
XP I decided I'd update my two old pc's still running XP and get the
patch.

Basically have failed for both. Neither pc seems to be able to get thru
the hurdle of installing whatever ActiveX control etc. is required and I
end up repeatedly at the "can't display page" displayed.

Is there some direct download for this new ransomware patch for XP?

What version of IE is last version XP will run and where's a direct
download link for that.

Please - no "upgrade pcs to newer OS version" comebacks. One of them is
an old laptop kept as a pc for quests in back bedroom, collect email,
listen to music or watch a video etc. It seldom gets turned on. Second
is solely for multi-media it retrieves over shared folders on in house
network and feeds a tv and stereo in rec room. Neither has the real
balls to cope with Win7, some drivers (especially for the laptop) may be
problamatic etc. and even with that valid excuse I'd not put Vista on
anything if I can help it.




Here is the direct link


http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....px?q=KB4012598


It sometimes takes a few tries to get the one you need

pjp wrote:

So given current malware and fact MS decided to release a patch even for
XP I decided I'd update my two old pc's still running XP and get the
patch.

Basically have failed for both. Neither pc seems to be able to get thru
the hurdle of installing whatever ActiveX control etc. is required and I
end up repeatedly at the "can't display page" displayed.

Is there some direct download for this new ransomware patch for XP?

What version of IE is last version XP will run and where's a direct
download link for that.

Please - no "upgrade pcs to newer OS version" comebacks. One of them is
an old laptop kept as a pc for quests in back bedroom, collect email,
listen to music or watch a video etc. It seldom gets turned on. Second
is solely for multi-media it retrieves over shared folders on in house
network and feeds a tv and stereo in rec room. Neither has the real
balls to cope with Win7, some drivers (especially for the laptop) may be
problamatic etc. and even with that valid excuse I'd not put Vista on
anything if I can help it.

You can try this in Internet Explorer on WinXP.

http://www.update.microsoft.com/wind....aspx?ln=en-us

I got through to Windows Update by doing that. The "default"
URL used when you click the Windows Update item in the main
start menu, didn't work for me.

I cannot see KB4012598 in the list there. The list painted very
rapidly, which is unusual for Windows Update on WinXP.

Others report this isn't working for them. Normally that site
should be able to bootstrap, using ActiveX, and the user
clicking the bar at the top to install some ActiveX (on
that site only of course).

*******

The direct link involves the catalog server.

http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....aspx?q=4012598

To make the list shorter, you can try

http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....x?q=4012598+XP

If the latter link is working, it looks like this. Browser
in this example is Seamonkey, *not* Internet Explorer. The download
is the thing in the right column. The behavior of the catalog
server, is not a function of ActiveX, and you have to test
browsers until one works for you.

https://s22.postimg.org/orlbpeuy9/no...ate_method.gif

*******

A worksheet of sorts, for a home user, is here.

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/how-to...crywannacrypt/

The methods there, do not compensate for your lack of Safe Hex.

If you like to click on email attachments like "you-gotta-see-this.exe",
well, bad things are likely to happen sooner or later.

The intention of the askwoody suggestions, to reduce the level of
damage, if something gets into your home LAN perimeter.

Paul

In article ,
says...

So given current malware and fact MS decided to release a patch even for
XP I decided I'd update my two old pc's still running XP and get the
patch.

Basically have failed for both. Neither pc seems to be able to get thru
the hurdle of installing whatever ActiveX control etc. is required and I
end up repeatedly at the "can't display page" displayed.

Is there some direct download for this new ransomware patch for XP?

What version of IE is last version XP will run and where's a direct
download link for that.

Please - no "upgrade pcs to newer OS version" comebacks. One of them is
an old laptop kept as a pc for quests in back bedroom, collect email,
listen to music or watch a video etc. It seldom gets turned on. Second
is solely for multi-media it retrieves over shared folders on in house
network and feeds a tv and stereo in rec room. Neither has the real
balls to cope with Win7, some drivers (especially for the laptop) may be
problamatic etc. and even with that valid excuse I'd not put Vista on
anything if I can help it.

Thanks all for replies.

On Tue, 16 May 2017 14:31:36 -0300, pjp wrote:

In article ,
says...

So given current malware and fact MS decided to release a patch even for
XP I decided I'd update my two old pc's still running XP and get the
patch.

Basically have failed for both. Neither pc seems to be able to get thru
the hurdle of installing whatever ActiveX control etc. is required and I
end up repeatedly at the "can't display page" displayed.

Is there some direct download for this new ransomware patch for XP?

What version of IE is last version XP will run and where's a direct
download link for that.

Please - no "upgrade pcs to newer OS version" comebacks. One of them is
an old laptop kept as a pc for quests in back bedroom, collect email,
listen to music or watch a video etc. It seldom gets turned on. Second
is solely for multi-media it retrieves over shared folders on in house
network and feeds a tv and stereo in rec room. Neither has the real
balls to cope with Win7, some drivers (especially for the laptop) may be
problamatic etc. and even with that valid excuse I'd not put Vista on
anything if I can help it.

Thanks all for replies.

I tried and it flashed up the page but then went to the error page. I
clicked the back button and after a couple of goes I got the page. I
suspect it's just very busy.

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In message , philo
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[]
Here is the direct link


http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....px?q=KB4012598


It sometimes takes a few tries to get the one you need


Closer, but not direct (nor are several of the other followups).

A direct link would be something like

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/...14fa6ee9dd.exe
, i. e. something ending in ".exe".

I'm guessing that ones like that are personalised, and maybe expire;
however, someone emailed me that one, and it worked when I tried it. I
subsequently did follow the official route, and downloaded the file that
way, and did an fc /b on the two, and it was identical. [681,200 bytes -
which comes out as 666 LB in Windows Explorer (-:]
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pronunciation. Nick Robinson, RT 2016/6/25-7/1

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , philo writes:
[]
Here is the direct link


http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....px?q=KB4012598


It sometimes takes a few tries to get the one you need


Closer, but not direct (nor are several of the other followups).

A direct link would be something like

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/...14fa6ee9dd.exe

, i. e. something ending in ".exe".

I'm guessing that ones like that are personalised, and maybe expire;
however, someone emailed me that one, and it worked when I tried it. I
subsequently did follow the official route, and downloaded the file that
way, and did an fc /b on the two, and it was identical. [681,200 bytes -
which comes out as 666 LB in Windows Explorer (-:]

They're the same for everyone. There's no tracking.

The files are portable.

The installer also does an OS version check. If you install
the WinXP patch on a Win10 system, it catches that and stops it.

The installer should also update the Windows Update history
for you, so you can check it later. There are other install
methods, like the method for installing .cab downloads,
that don't leave uninstall options. These nicely packaged
updates do a much better job.

Paul

In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[]
A direct link would be something like

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/...windowsxp-kb40
12598-x86-custom-enu_eceb7d5023bbb23c0dc633e46b9c2f14fa6ee9dd.exe , i.
e. something ending in ".exe".
I'm guessing that ones like that are personalised, and maybe expire;
[]
They're the same for everyone. There's no tracking.

The files are portable.

Good; I'd hoped that was the case.

But, I'm now wondering why the majority of links people have posted have
been to pages that require the visitor to follow two or three further
links.

I appreciate the desire to "teach a man to fish" as it were, but in this
case (a) the servers for the intermediate stages will also be very busy
(as people have found), and (b) there is [OK, arguably] some urgency in
this case that I'd say overrides the fishing lesson desire.

The installer also does an OS version check. If you install
the WinXP patch on a Win10 system, it catches that and stops it.

That's good.

The installer should also update the Windows Update history
for you, so you can check it later. There are other install
methods, like the method for installing .cab downloads,
that don't leave uninstall options. These nicely packaged
updates do a much better job.

Paul

That's what I thought. So there's absolutely no reason I can see for not
giving people a real direct link to the .exe, other than the desire to
educate. [Yes, we shouldn't be encouraging people to follow direct links
to .exe files, of course. But then, the same (or similar) argument says
we shouldn't be encouraging people to still be using XP at all. (-:]
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I'm not a great fan of new technology. I don't change my phone every time the
bell rings - Sir David Attenborough, RT 2016/1/23-29

"pjp" wrote

| Is there some direct download for this new ransomware patch for XP?
|
I downloaded it he

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...crypt-attacks/

No IE. no script. No nonsense. Just look down near
the bottom for links for various Windows versions.
They're direct links to an EXE which is an SFX CAB
file.

In article , am says...

"pjp" wrote

| Is there some direct download for this new ransomware patch for XP?
|
I downloaded it he

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...crypt-attacks/

No IE. no script. No nonsense. Just look down near
the bottom for links for various Windows versions.
They're direct links to an EXE which is an SFX CAB
file.

Got another and already done but thanks anyway. Have to pull out old
laptop and start it up and update before I forget, stereo/tv pc already
done

On 05/16/2017 05:13 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , philo writes:
[]
Here is the direct link


http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....px?q=KB4012598


It sometimes takes a few tries to get the one you need


Closer, but not direct (nor are several of the other followups).

A direct link would be something like

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/...14fa6ee9dd.exe

, i. e. something ending in ".exe".

I'm guessing that ones like that are personalised, and maybe expire;
however, someone emailed me that one, and it worked when I tried it. I
subsequently did follow the official route, and downloaded the file that
way, and did an fc /b on the two, and it was identical. [681,200 bytes -
which comes out as 666 LB in Windows Explorer (-:]



I gave that link for several reasons:


1) There are others here besides the OP who may be running different
operating systems so anyone who would go to the link I provided could
chose as necessary.

2) It would be (somewhat) presumptions of me to have assumed the OP was
running the 32 bit version of XP.

3) I also know some folks are hesitant to directly download an
executable file. In general people like to see where it's coming from.