• Time to get caught up – even with Windows XP Service Pack 3

    Posted on December 30, 2008 at 07:59 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    It looks like the December crop of Black Tuesday patches are working out. MS08-070, -072 and -074 all had documentation changes, but the patches haven’t caused any loud screams of pain.

    For those of you who haven’t installed Windows XP Service Pack 3, now is the time to do so. The biggest problem arises if you have an, uh, “ungenuine” copy of Windows XP – one that gets flagged by Microsoft’s snooper as being a pirate copy. The downside: if you install XP SP3 and you have an ungenuine copy of XP, your desktop wallpaper will turn black and you’ll get annoying messages down in the system tray – but that’s it. There are no other ill effects. You can even change your wallpaper, but SP3 will check every hour and make it black again.

    If you have problems installing XP SP3, take a look at Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB 950718 for suggestions.

    I’m moving us down to MS-DEFCON 5: All’s clear. Patch while it’s safe.

    Windows Patches/Security
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