On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > and, alas, microsoft has made sp2 unavailable and xp next year is support > EOL except for embedded. so SP1 users (like me) are out of luck unless they > have already downloaded and burned a copy of SP2 and SP3. after EOL, updates > will no longer be available from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, just > like with windows 9x/me/2000.
Are you still using Windows XP SP1? If that is the case, I am wondering how you can stop those worms spreading to your computer unless your XP SP1 computer is isolated from the Internet. I still remember the famous W32.Blaster worm affected many university PCs back in 2003. -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public