MS has discontinued security definitions for XP

msfn said:
My automatic updates for MS Security Essentials are working again thanks to WindowsXP-KB2584577-v0.4-x86-ENU.exe from blackwingcat. All I had to do was download WindowsXP-KB2584577-v0.4-x86-ENU.exe from http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1706829.html and run it...
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Lol. I did absolutely nothing and MSE automatically updated to April 23. Looks like business is back to usual for MSE definitions on XP. Even the 'mpam-fe.exe' u could download manually works by clicking it w/o needing WinRAR to extract the files archived within it.

Bottom line is thousands of US Navy computers still run XP. They paid MS several millions last summer to keep it updated. Stunts like this most recent one involving MSE definitions are not going to impress organizations like the US Navy which of course would rather use Microsoft's own homebrew security client...
 
Just a little aside, I thought MS's activities on April 23 was a little weird. After booting up 3 different OSes on my machine, I'm seeing three different MSE definitions created on April 23rd (not the time of update download/install, but time of creation of those updates on MS's end). I'm seeing MS has updated MSE definitions in the AM, afternoon, and PM on the same day. Very unusual for MS to be updating definition packages 3 times in one day!
 
They used to do this eatup. Back when I ran XP x64 (2011-2014), I remember running MSE updates manually on login, and I would get two updates between 11 am and say 3 pm. I never knew that ceased to be the case.
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eatup said:
It's official, MSE for XP will no longer receive security definition updates. The last one they issued was on April 12, 2016. Manually downloading them will not work either as the update file will not run when you double click it.

BUT, not to worry. If anyone has saved a copy of the definition updates recently (that still worked on XP), they're safe regarding threats dating back before it. As to future threats, lol, the hackers have stopped targeting XP...

Anyways, if anyone knows of a way to extract those definitions from the download package (the newer ones that will only work in Win7) to manually update them ourselves, do post it here...
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I have the posready 2009 trick enabled so i get the definitions normaly :) :)
 
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