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  4. Brazilian Hotfix

    in Hotfix Requests

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    Hi yon and welcome to the forum.

     

    These hotfixes was uploaded now, and they are just waiting to be approved:

    KB817688 - "Error on a Request to Write Data to Media" error message when you use Ntbackup.exe

    KB974266 - Group Policy Preferences Client-Side Extension Hotfix Rollup

     

    This hotfix doesn't exist in PT-BR language specifically.

    KB961184 - Update for Windows Search 4.0, December 2008

    It was released in EN-US language only, however, possibly it will install in PT-BR Windows since it was marked as: "Language - All (Global)"

    You can download it here in the forum:

    KB961184-en-US.exe

     

    Regards. ;)

     

  5. Download speeds

    in Hub

    Posted · Edited by Lance

    Xable,

     

    I downloaded this file:

    http://thehotfixshare.net/board/index.php?showtopic=13760

    7.7 MB

     

    @ 9:00 PM in Brazil - average speed = 160 KB/s

     

    Best regards. ;)

     

    EDITED: My bandwidth limit is 200 KB/s.

  15. Windows XP service Pack 2

    in Update Discussion and Support

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    Hello dandellosso,

     

    Welcome to the forum.

     

    ... I need to put on service pak 2 before I do service pack 3.

    It isn't necessary to have SP2 before you install the SP3, "only" recommended in the words of Microsoft here:

    Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)

    In addition, your computer must at least be running Windows XP with Service Pack 1 installed.
We recommended that you have Service Pack 2 installed before installing SP3.

    You can download the SP3 in the link above posted by xable.

    However, I recommend that you read this article before install the SP3:

    KB936929 - Information about Windows XP Service Pack 3

     

     

     

    I went to Microsoft downloads and Service Pack 2 shows as a 0 KB size and 0 secs' to download.

    When you say "Microsoft downloads", are you referring to the "Windows Update"?

     

     

     

    ... so now it is loaded with viruses.

    By the way, these virus could cause some troubles when installing the SP3, as well as any antivirus program running in real time.

    And the most important thing:

    "Please, backup all your important data before you try to install the SP2 or SP3!".

     

    Best regards, ;)

    Lance.

     

  17. IE8-WindowsXP-KB941158-v2-x86-ENU.exe

    in XP Hotfix Support Topics

    Posted

    File Name: IE8-WindowsXP-KB941158-v2-x86-ENU.exe

    File Submitter: Lance

    File Submitted: 20 Sep 2009

    File Category: English Windows XP Hotfix Downloads

     

    KB941158 - After Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings are configured in a domain, a 20-second delay occurs when you log on to the domain from a client computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed

     

    Click here to download this file

  20. Microsoft: No TCP/IP patches for you, XP

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Won't fix flaws addressed in Vista, says firewall can stymie attacks

     

    Computerworld - Microsoft late last week said it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

     

    The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4.

     

    "We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible," said security program manager Adrian Stone during Microsoft's monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000 and XP.

     

    "An update for Windows XP will not be made available," Stone and fellow program manager Jerry Bryant said during the Q&A portion of the Webcast (transcript here).

     

    Last Tuesday, Microsoft said that it wasn't patching Windows 2000 because creating a fix was "infeasible."

     

    The bugs in question are in Windows' implementation of TCP/IP, the Web's default suite of connection protocols. All three of the vulnerabilities highlighted in the MS09-048 update were patched in Vista and Server 2008. Only two of the trio affect Windows Server 2000 and Windows XP, Microsoft said in the accompanying advisory, which was refreshed on Thursday.

     

    In the revised advisory, Microsoft explained why it won't patch Windows XP, the world's most popular operating system. "By default, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 do not have a listening service configured in the client firewall and are therefore not affected by this vulnerability," the company said. "Windows XP SP2 and later operating systems include a stateful host firewall that provides protection for computers against incoming traffic from the Internet or from neighboring network devices on a private network."

     

    Although the two bugs can be exploited on Windows 2000 and XP, Microsoft downplayed their impact. "A system would become unresponsive due to memory consumption ... [but] a successful attack requires a sustained flood of specially crafted TCP packets, and the system will recover once the flood ceases."

     

    Microsoft rated the vulnerabilities on Windows 2000 and XP as "important" on Windows 2000, and as "low" on XP. The company uses a four-step scoring system, where "low" is the least-dangerous threat, followed in ascending order by "moderate," "important" and "critical."

     

    The same two bugs were ranked "moderate" for Vista and Server 2008, while a third -- which doesn't affect the older operating systems -- was rated "critical."

     

    During the Q&A, however, Windows users repeatedly asked Microsoft's security team to explain why it wasn't patching XP, or if, in certain scenarios, their machines might be at risk. "We still use Windows XP and we do not use Windows Firewall," read one of the user questions. "We use a third-party vendor firewall product. Even assuming that we use the Windows Firewall, if there are services listening, such as remote desktop, wouldn't then Windows XP be vulnerable to this?"

     

    "Servers are a more likely target for this attack, and your firewall should provide additional protections against external exploits," replied Stone and Bryant.

     

    Another user asked them to spell out the conditions under which Microsoft won't offer up patches for still-supported operating systems. Windows Server 2000 SP4, for example, is to receive security updates until July 2010; Windows XP's support doesn't expire until April 2014.

     

    Stone's and Bryant's answer: "We will continue to provide updates for Windows 2000 while it is in support unless it is not technically feasible to do so."

     

    Skipping patches is very unusual for Microsoft. According to a Stone and Bryant, the last time it declined to patch a vulnerability in a support edition of Windows was in March 2003, when it said it wouldn't fix a bug in Windows NT 4.0. Then, it explained the omission with language very similar to what it used when it said it wouldn't update Windows 2000.

     

    "Due to these fundamental differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and its successors, it is infeasible to rebuild the software for Windows NT 4.0 to eliminate the vulnerability," Microsoft said at the time.

     

  21. DirectX End-User Runtimes (August 2009) Redistributable

    in Update Discussion and Support

    Posted

    Brief Description

    August 2009

    This download provides the DirectX end-user redistributable that developers can include with their product.

     

    Date Published: 9/8/2009

    Download Size: 103.3 MB

     

    Overview

    This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory.

     

    This package is localized into Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, and English.

    DOWNLOAD:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...b1-442d8712d553

  22. Upcoming Update for Windows Update

    in Update Discussion and Support

    Posted

    Upcoming Update for Windows Update

    Posted: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:04 PM by muteam

     

    Just a reminder, we are starting the Windows Update and Microsoft Update service upgrades today. The service upgrade will include updates to the online update services and the Windows Update (or Automatic Updates on XP) client code installed on your computer. As explained in our previous post, the upgrade will take several months to complete, and you don’t need to do anything on your own to complete the service upgrade. The client code will be updated automatically when needed, if your computer is configured to automatically check for updates, download updates, or install updates. If you have disabled updating and do not check for updates then the client code will not be updated automatically.

    DOWNLOAD:

    http://download.windowsupdate.com/windowsu...agent30-x86.exe

     

    You can find more information here:

     

    Article ID: 946928 - Information for network administrators about how to obtain the latest Windows Update Agent

     

    Article ID: 949104 - How to obtain the latest version of the Windows Update Agent to help manage updates on a computer

     

    NOTE: Both articles aren't updated yet.

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