Apply your Windows Updates

[GneissGuy]

Let me suggest you apply windows updates if you don't already do so automatically. And maybe do a manual update just to be sure.

There's a particularly nasty security hole that Microsoft provided a patch for this Monday. It's a big security hole and there are computer criminals out there trying to attack machines that aren't patched.

If you have Windows XP, you must have SP3 applied, or they patch is not available.

Microsoft has abandoned anyone still using Windows 2000 or NT, and will not be publishing a patch for you despite the secure security hole in their defective software.

[Mokoa]

Here is the information on this update...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-046 Critical

[GneissGuy]

There's some Microsoft misinformation here, too. They don't list XP SP2, Win2000, or NT as vulnerable, but apparently they ARE vulnerable. Apparently, since Microsoft doesn't support these versions anymore, they don't bother to tell you there's a security hole.