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Thank you everyone for your help! Using your links I was able to download sp3 and now the system is updating correctly. IE is still buggy and crashing but I am going to tell my brother to use Google Chrome as it is much quicker. He only has 352 mg of ram also so gonna try to get him to bump it to the limit of 1 gig. That could be part of the problem too. I tried to spread some reps but for some I can't until I spread it more around. Thanks again.
Thank you everyone for your help! Using your links I was able to download sp3 and now the system is updating correctly. IE is still buggy and crashing but I am going to tell my brother to use Google Chrome as it is much quicker. He only has 352 mg of ram also so gonna try to get him to bump it to the limit of 1 gig. That could be part of the problem too. I tried to spread some reps but for some I can't until I spread it more around. Thanks again.
Yeah 352 MB of RAM is pretty sad and will severely limit that machine's usefulness. Does that machine really only support 1 GB? Any increase over what you have will help.
strange. i actually manually and intentionally stop those auto updates. or maybe coz i use firefox so those pesky auto updates notifications stopped.
i stopped auto updates because seriously i think that's the one bringing problems/stalling/infecting my PC.
Why would MS infect their own softwre? LOL
ANY OS or program that is extensive with thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code is going to have exploits. If you don't keep your software up to date you're vulnerable to being infected through these exploits. As I already mentioned you can get infected with SP1 simply being connected to the internet.
Yeah the hp website says 1g limit. Its a 10 yr old machine.
1 gig for for XP is the sweet spot for the average person, you'll see a vast iprovement with performance. RAM is cheap and easy to install just make sure it's the right kind and you're installing it in the right combination.
ANY OS or program that is extensive with thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code is going to have exploits. If you don't keep your software up to date you're vulnerable to being infected through these exploits. As I already mentioned you can get infected with SP1 simply being connected to the internet.
i dont think MS is doing it but rather those hackers knew about those auto updates so they made a malware that looks like it's MS updating your system but it's actually the malware. watever like i said when i stopped those auto updates problem was gone and it helps that avast is the s-h-i-t antivirus program.
People not updating their operating system is how worms survive on the Internet forever. Please keep your OS current or just sell your computer and buy an ipad.
i dont think MS is doing it but rather those hackers knew about those auto updates so they made a malware that looks like it's MS updating your system.....
The updates are integrated into the OS/Browser, while it's certainly possible that could be compromised if you don't keep your software up to date I'm not aware of the update feature in MS being compromised.
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Windows automatic updates are not infecting your computer. 
