Windows XP Service Pack 2

[IronBits]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers
This installation package is intended for IT professionals and developers downloading and installing on multiple computers on a network. If you're updating just one computer, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/protect

[IronBits]

And....
It worked!!! :D
:cheers:

[Death]

please remove DOT from last url =))
/edited by IB: Done :D

[IronBits]

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/


Starting with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows supports a new security enhancement called Data Execution Prevention (DEP). This feature prevents execution of program code in memory regions which normally do not contain any program code, such as the program stack, the process heap or data segments. Certain types of viruses or worms infect computers by provoking a buffer overrun in a vulnerable application to insert and execute their own, malicious code. With Data Execution Prevention (DEP) such attempts will be detected by the CPU and stopped by the operating system, thus ending a vulnerable application instead of allowing it to infect the computer with a virus or worm.

Works on my AMD64 eMachines 6809 laptop :thumbs:

[GHOST]

i finally found a crack for xp activation, installed it a couple days ago. sp2 killed it. 30 days left for activation:mad:

[em99010pepe]

IBM Just Says No to XP Update


IBM, for one, is holding off on installing the security focused update for Windows XP. In a note headlined "To patch -- or not to patch" posted Friday on its corporate intranet, IBM tells its employees not to download SP2 when it becomes available because of compatibility issues.

Source (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117297,00.asp)

[Paratima]

I hear that SP2 speeds up execution to the point where they're estimating selected programs running at (or nearly) 0.25 DOS-speed! :jester: