Win XP 2022 Security updates ?

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A slew of 40 Win XP Security updates turned up on 16JAN22, ready to install
on my ancient Win XP machine…Are these The Genuine Articles ?

https://i.postimg.cc/Y2PFjj2d/Win-XP-2022-security-upates-2022-01-16-141709.png

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By the KB numbers, those aren’t new. I’d suspect it is more likely that a (recently?) installed/updated third party software title made changes to system files (e.g. to older redistributed versions), and Windows Update is just offering those to change the files back to the latest versions.

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Thanks for your quick and considerate reply.

Since the Win XP Security Updates notification appeared after I rebooted the XP machine,
and there was a pop-up reminder from Adobe to update their Acrobat Reader product,
this might perhaps have triggered the Win XP 2022 Updates notification ?

Any other similar cases you recently heard off ?

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Is this you?  philBE on Twitter: “To: Win updates guru @SBSDiva Hello Patch_Lady Win *XP* 2022 Security updates… A slew of 40 Win XP Security updates turned up today 16JAN22, ready to install on some ancient backup Win XP machine Are these “The Genuine Win XP Articles” … https://t.co/DSW5WHCTcP” / Twitter

Either a new install of something, or Microsoft reindexed something in updates.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Hi Susan,  @philbe2 from Twitter indeed…;-)  thanks for following up !

Here is my most recent comment on Twitter:

“A January 2022 WSU release including 40-strong KB patches to update an XP platform “officially out-of-support since April 2014, without a word of explanation ?

“Sounds a bit rich to me, @Microsoft…

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Those updates are only for paying MS Windows Xp  extended support for business that are paying huge amounts for these updates. It must have been release accidentally to everyone.

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I was keeping my personal xp machine updated through 2018 with the Embedded – POS registry hack.
Are these KBs newer than that?

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