gHacks technology news » xp update http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Windows XP Service Pack 3 leaked http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/23/windows-xp-service-pack-3-leaked/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/23/windows-xp-service-pack-3-leaked/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:57:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3897 Some decisions that Microsoft makes are hard to understand, at least for me. Take the monthly patch days that provide security updates to various Microsoft operating systems and applications. Sometimes those patches are known weeks before they are released and that makes me wonder why it takes so long to release them. If Microsoft knows about security vulnerabilities the chance that criminals know them is at least feasible.

The same can be said for Windows XP Service Pack 3. Instead of distributing it to everyone at once Microsoft decided to supply it to users and manufacturers over the course of weeks. Is there any reason why this is done that way ? Interestingly though “pirates” get those releases more often than not earlier than other users. Why do pirates come first most of the times ?

Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been leaked and is now available on various Bittorrent websites and surely on ftps and other P2P networks as well. Why is it that honest users always seem to be at the end of the chain ? One could argue that companies can distribute their products any way they want and while this is surely right it will disappoint at least some of their customers.

Microsoft is releasing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP on April 29th to all customers.

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Project Dakota is another way of obtaining the latest updates for Windows XP. The project can be downloaded as a CD containing all updates found on the Microsoft website for Windows XP 32-bit including Service Pack 2 and some other useful programs like Spybot Search & Destroy.

The good thing about this is that you can download the Iso, burn it to CD and install it on as many computers running Windows XP as you like. You make a few selections at the beginning but all updates are installed silently afterwards which means they require no user interaction.

New versions of the Project Dakota iso will be released each month which unfortunately have to be downloaded again. That’s probably the biggest disadvantage of this approach.

project dakota

There is no information on the kind of updates and software included on the CD until you download the iso and burn it. The independent programs are the following:

adaware
adobereader
apps
avgas
avgav
Firefox
flash
java
quicktime
spybot
vnc
Bginfo
CWShredder
portmon
procmon
psexec
psfile
psgetsid
psinfo
pskill
pslist
psloggedon
psloglist
pspasswd
psservice
psshutdown
pssuspend
SmitfraudFix
whois

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