Got an old IBM
ThinkPad T41 that needed an OS reinstall.
Windows XP went in without a hitch. Tried installing the latest
Microsoft Security Essentials, and it won't install due to
unsupported operating system. Apparently,
WinXP reached
end-of-support on April 8, 2014. No more patches, no more security updates. Easy fix is to simply get an older version of MSE from
elsewhere. As of this writing, latest MSE engine is version 4.5. I downloaded version 4.4, and it installed without any complaints.
With respect to antivirus definitions, Microsoft will supposedly keep them coming until
April 15, 2015. With my v4.4 MSE, I was able to get the latest definitions without doing anything special. If that's not the case for you, there are
other official ways to get the latest virus definitions.
Either that, or simply install a different
security product.
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