Rather fine booboo on MS's part! Or, update mechanism has been hacked ...

I got the "updates are available" popup, looked at them, and accepted.
One is the periodic "Malicious Software Removal Tool" - I usually accept
that; I know it only does a few common ones, but I've not hear of it
doing _harm_.

I then got a EULA popup containing two boxes. The top, small, box says:

"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

END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
FOR PRERELEASE CODE

IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY:
This End-User License Agreement for Prerelease Code ("EULA") is a"

then goes on to give the rest of the EULA, with accept and decline
buttons.

Anyone else (who has "notify" for updates) got this? If so, is it just a
booboo on MS's part - they've used the text from XP-SP2 (and the
pre-release version of that) in the EULA box - or has the update
mechanism been hacked?

Running 7 Hope Premium, SP1, 32 bit, if that makes any difference.
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