This free service pack delivers the latest security updates and innovations from Microsoft, establishes strong default security settings, and adds new proactive protection features that will help better safeguard computers from hackers, viruses and other security risks.
today announced the release to manufacturing of Windows® XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies. The links below are not official mirrors, many thanks to the guys that are hosting the package. A few sites have mirrored the file and it's 266 MB !Īnyway, a bit late but never too late, The thing is, right now you have to get it on CD or simply hit the Automatic/Windows update. The thing is, right now you have to get it on CD. But not every user reads the MSRC blog.Microsoft released it's Windows XP Service Pack 2 finally. Microsoft started warning customers of XP SP2’s looming retirement last February, and has been repeating that warning every month in its Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog on Patch Tuesday, the regularly-scheduled second-Tuesday-of-the-month security update release day. I don’t think many people were looking at the messages Microsoft was putting out.”
“Personally, I didn’t know about it until two months ago.
“I think this simply flew under the radar of most IT professionals,” said Kandek, talking about the July retirement of XP SP2. “I expect to see reliable exploits of unpatched vulnerabilities three or four months later.”Ĭompanies have stepped up their efforts to migrate machines to XP SP3 in the last 11 months - the rate of adoption of the newest service pack during that period was roughly double that of SP3’s first 14 months of availability - but even now, just weeks before SP2 will slide off support, half of the Windows XP systems still run the older edition, according to Qualys. “I would expect that come August, SP2 will be getting hard and harder to defend,” said Kandek, referring to the lack of security updates.
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