Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks

Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks spawned by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/security/201...hadow-brokers/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...lder-platforms

Regards,

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In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:17:05
-0400, B00ze wrote:

Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks spawned by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/security/201...hadow-brokers/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...lder-platforms

Regards,

Thanks. Says has to be retrieved manually. That will be the first
thing I do when I turn on XP again.

In message , micky
writes:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:17:05
-0400, B00ze wrote:

Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks spawned by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/security/201...o-avert-new-ou
tbreaks-spawned-by-nsa-leaking-shadow-brokers/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...t-security-adv
isory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms

Regards,

Thanks. Says has to be retrieved manually. That will be the first
thing I do when I turn on XP again.

Good luck in actually _finding_ it. I've just looked through the target
of both of the above links, and not finding it. (One of the discussion
points in the first one made the same point [that in all the discussion,
a link to a download wouldn't go amiss], and a link seemed to be
provided by one of the followups, but that just AFAICS pointed to a
variation of the second article.)

I'd be happy to manually download it rather than expect it to happen
automatically - maybe I might even prefer that; however, ... (-:
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , micky
writes:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:17:05
-0400, B00ze wrote:

Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks spawned by NSA-leaking Shadow
Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/security/201...o-avert-new-ou
tbreaks-spawned-by-nsa-leaking-shadow-brokers/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...t-security-adv
isory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms

Regards,

Thanks. Says has to be retrieved manually. That will be the first
thing I do when I turn on XP again.

Good luck in actually _finding_ it. I've just looked through the target
of both of the above links, and not finding it. (One of the discussion
points in the first one made the same point [that in all the discussion,
a link to a download wouldn't go amiss], and a link seemed to be
provided by one of the followups, but that just AFAICS pointed to a
variation of the second article.)

I'd be happy to manually download it rather than expect it to happen
automatically - maybe I might even prefer that; however, ... (-:

The reason it's not automated, is the state of the Windows Update
file seems to be "frozen" for some of the OSes. I'm not sure they
really want to turn on Windows Update to automate those patches,
because it will invoke a world of hurt on people using Windows Update
on "fresh" installs.

For example, it would be fun to use a copy of MBSA 2.3 to detect
the missing patches. But if you try that, these recent security
ones are likely to be missing. So even MBSA (Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer) won't be able to give useful info in this case (on WinXP
at least).

So while Microsoft is nominally releasing patches, you'll
need to be "Sherlock Holmes" to complete your mission.

*******

Try the following:

This is a search on the Catalog server for:

"security update" "Windows XP"

http://www.catalog.update.microsoft....dows %20XP%22

It will tell you there are more than 1000 returned results.

Now, click the Last Update column, to re-sort the display so
the 2017 entries are at the top.

And the top entries should give some hints about what to grab.

Paul

In message , XP-SP3 writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

Good luck in actually _finding_ it. I've just looked through the target
of both of the above links, and not finding it.

For the hyper-linked challenged amongst us ^@^

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-security-advi
sory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms

Direct links to all 12 updates for WindowsXP SP3 x86:

Thanks. So the recent patch is presumably one of the three with 2017/06
in their URL:
[]
http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/...indowsxp-kb402
4323-x86-custom-enu_edb5a850bcbcc640c2b8c8aad3ab4d36a3b6fb26.exe
http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/...indowsxp-kb402
5218-x86-custom-enu_f72f48762b3c7354919c86f10d3139b65ddc8a26.exe
http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/...indowsxp-kb402
4402-x86-custom-enu_c2334a5c8087e107fe26570650966a8f42602b0a.exe
[]
Presumably the one with the highest KB number, which for some reason
seems to be the middle one - right?
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- Alison Graham, RT 2015/6/20-26

On 2017-06-14 17:30, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[snip]

Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks spawned by NSA-leaking Shadow
Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/security/201...o-avert-new-ou
tbreaks-spawned-by-nsa-leaking-shadow-brokers/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...t-security-adv
isory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms

Regards,

Thanks. Says has to be retrieved manually. That will be the first
thing I do when I turn on XP again.

There are a dozen patches...

Good luck in actually _finding_ it. I've just looked through the target
of both of the above links, and not finding it. (One of the discussion
points in the first one made the same point [that in all the discussion,
a link to a download wouldn't go amiss], and a link seemed to be
provided by one of the followups, but that just AFAICS pointed to a
variation of the second article.)

I'd be happy to manually download it rather than expect it to happen
automatically - maybe I might even prefer that; however, ... (-:

All the links are in the 2nd URL I posted
(support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687). They are in a "Table Format"
with each patch listed as a KB number. You have a dozen to download.

Best Regards,

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In message , B00ze
writes:
[]
All the links are in the 2nd URL I posted
(support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687). They are in a "Table
Format" with each patch listed as a KB number. You have a dozen to
download.

Best Regards,

OK, thanks. XP-SP3 posted the URLs of the actual 12 executables.
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On 15 Jun 2017, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

In message , B00ze
writes:
[]
All the links are in the 2nd URL I posted
(support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687). They are in a "Table
Format" with each patch listed as a KB number. You have a dozen to
download.

OK, thanks. XP-SP3 posted the URLs of the actual 12 executables.

I'm glad he did that. The KB page was confusing me - I thought I had to
wade through that to figure out which one of the many patches applied
to my system. I didn't understand that I needed to install *all* of
them.

On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:52:06 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 15 Jun 2017, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

In message , B00ze
writes:
[]
All the links are in the 2nd URL I posted
(support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687). They are in a "Table
Format" with each patch listed as a KB number. You have a dozen to
download.

OK, thanks. XP-SP3 posted the URLs of the actual 12 executables.

I'm glad he did that. The KB page was confusing me - I thought I had to
wade through that to figure out which one of the many patches applied
to my system. I didn't understand that I needed to install *all* of
them.

I just got about 10 patches for Office 2007 (auto update), some seem
to be on that list.

Am 14.06.2017 um 04:17 schrieb B00ze:
Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks spawned by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/security/201...hadow-brokers/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...lder-platforms

The first patch listed (958644) has in it’s details that it was released
10/22/2008

Why exactly is that patch listed among the new patches for a
securityleak that was found far later?

On 17 Jun 2017, Michael wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Am 14.06.2017 um 04:17 schrieb B00ze:
Win XP patched to avert new outbreaks spawned by NSA-leaking
Shadow Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/security/201...hadow-brokers/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...lder-platforms

The first patch listed (958644) has in it's details that it was
released 10/22/2008

Why exactly is that patch listed among the new patches for a
securityleak that was found far later?

Maybe they're prerequisites for some other more recent patch. Or
maybe they just want to make sure everybody has it. It's rarely a
problem to re-install a patch that you already have.