That said, assuming it is compatible, the Anti-Exploit component could be very useful in helping to mitigate the risks inherent in using such an outdated operating system, however I do not know if there ever was a version of Malwarebytes with the Anti-Exploit component that worked with SP2 or if the standalone version of Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit ever supported SP2 but you can check in the standalone Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit Beta forums located here and a member of the team should respond to let you know. Obviously it's still better than nothing, but it is definitely less than ideal so I'd strongly advise only using it as a second opinion/auxiliary tool if at all possible, especially on an older OS like XP SP2. This is because as new detection methods/syntax are developed, the Researchers start using those more frequently than the older methods as they tend to be more powerful, more efficient and better at covering a greater number of threats (through the use of heuristics, which is what makes up most of the signatures used in Malwarebytes very few are static/hash type signatures as most other more traditional AV/AM applications might use).
not use in any way) any threat signatures that use new/unknown syntax which has been added to later engine versions to avoid bugs and false positives (since the older builds would not know how to properly interpret them and therefore the behavior would be unpredictable if it tried to use a new type of syntax/signature that it did not recognize/wasn't coded for). Unfortunately I don't know what the last version to support SP2 was, however the older a version is, the worse protection and detection capabilities it will provide so I really wouldn't advise relying on it to protect your devices or even to detect most modern threats and/or PUPs as the vast majority of signatures currently in use, including those which are included in the databases/signatures that would be downloaded by any older build like 2.x etc., would be exclusively version 3.x compatible as the scan and protection engines have been designed to disregard/skip (i.e.
I'm guessing there's some form of proprietary hardware and/or software being used with the machine that requires a specific OS and service pack level which prohibits installing any major updates/making any significant changes (such as installing SP3).
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