WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 UPDATE

Microsoft will begin delivered Service Pack 2 to XP Home Edition users with Automatic Update turned on in a few days, but it has delayed delivery to XP Professional users until the week of August 25. Here’s an article explaining that corporate customers asked...

WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 INFO

I put together a page with basic information about Windows XP Service Pack 2 – links to some of the reports and reviews and information about why it’s important and how to get it. Click here to get started on learning about this important upgrade!

WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 APPROACHES

Articles are starting to appear in the mainstream media about the imminent release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 – due to be released either today or three weeks from now, depending on which article you read. This will be a critically important upgrade for all of...

NEW VERSION OF WINDOWS UPDATE & NEW CRITICAL UPDATES

There are new Critical Updates from Microsoft today that fix the exploit used by the “Download.Ject” trojan, the one that generated all the news articles last month. It replaces a temporary patch that was more limited in scope. Go to Windows Update and...

WINDOWS UPDATES

There are five new critical updates from Microsoft today. If you followed my suggestion and activated the “Automatic Update” feature of Windows XP, your computer will download them tonight and install them automatically. If you’re not sure, visit...

RULES FOR SAFE COMPUTING

Every day I clean off adware, spyware, browser hijacking, viruses, Sasser worms, and other bad things. You are an unwilling participant in a war with spammers, virus writers, advertisers, and hackers. Protecting your computer takes more than an antivirus program...