Now what has happened that is interesting, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP five years ago when Tony Abbott was Prime Minister, but occasionally if it is super urgent they will release a patch. So this supercritical patch is available here for Windows XP. Anyone running something later than Windows 7 or later does not need to worry about it as
This patch is considered very important by Microsoft. If you want to read the technical reasons for this patch, it is here.
What everyone wondering is what is going on as Microsoft like everyone else, including us, uses automatic updates. No-one runs updates manually for 20 years, yet this update is manual.
Our advice to those who are running Windows XP on a computer is to run it without access to the internet and to be extremely careful what they put on it. We think its best that they put nothing on it because it is incredibly vulnerable to viruses.