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Windows XP: Chronicle of a death foretold
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service @JuanCPerezIDG When Microsoft ends support for Windows XP on Tuesday, a security sinkhole will likely open and gradually widen, threatening hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide in homes, companies, government agencies and schools. Along with the Y2K bug, Windows XP’s support termination is one of the computer industry’s most publicized—and most ignored—deadlines, toward which many business and IT managers have taken a curiously casual attitude. The implications could be dire for those organizations that continue to use Windows XP, a decrepit OS Microsoft launched in 2001, and whose bugs and security vulnerabilities it will no longer patch. Microsoft hasn’t minced words painting doomsday scenarios of malicious hackers and cybercriminals having a field day with Windows XP PCs, unleashing a barrage of malware, carrying out ransomware attacks, and stealing sensitive personal and financial data stored in those machines. “Once support ends and the OS is no longer patched, the PC is at risk,” said Tom Murphy, Microsoft’s director of communications for Windows. http://tinyurl.com/lum9pmr snerk It’s the end of the world, especially for Gregg, whose array of computers will blow up one by one. Whatever you do, don't accept any emails from folks running XP. |
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On 4/8/2014 1:39 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 4/8/14, 1:11 PM, wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 10:35:19 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote: Windows XP: Chronicle of a death foretold Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service @JuanCPerezIDG When Microsoft ends support for Windows XP on Tuesday, a security sinkhole will likely open and gradually widen, threatening hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide in homes, companies, government agencies and schools. Along with the Y2K bug, Windows XP’s support termination is one of the computer industry’s most publicized—and most ignored—deadlines, toward which many business and IT managers have taken a curiously casual attitude. The implications could be dire for those organizations that continue to use Windows XP, a decrepit OS Microsoft launched in 2001, and whose bugs and security vulnerabilities it will no longer patch. Microsoft hasn’t minced words painting doomsday scenarios of malicious hackers and cybercriminals having a field day with Windows XP PCs, unleashing a barrage of malware, carrying out ransomware attacks, and stealing sensitive personal and financial data stored in those machines. “Once support ends and the OS is no longer patched, the PC is at risk,” said Tom Murphy, Microsoft’s director of communications for Windows. http://tinyurl.com/lum9pmr snerk It’s the end of the world, especially for Gregg, whose array of computers will blow up one by one. Whatever you do, don't accept any emails from folks running XP. If I really thought that was true, the W/98 machines I have running would have the Ebola virus by now. The "vulnerabilities" are usually in new code, not old code. Bear in mind the updates are coming fast and furious on the newer windows platforms too and these only come after there was an attack. If enough people had apples to attract hackers, they would be attacked too. I don't really trust microshaft for my security anyway. There are far more robust protection packages out there. My wife runs a freebie anti-vi package on her Win 7 home desktop. It might be AVG. My server's modules include anti-vi, which updates itself from time to time and allegedly will send me a message if it finds anything malicious. I've never gotten a “Danger, Will Robinson!” message on any of my Apple devices. That Apple's computers are not "attractive" to hackers is yet another reason to use them. The free version of AVG is rated very highly ... in fact some who have tested the various anti-virus packages say it say it outperforms most of the software packages that you pay for and, in most cases, is all you need. |
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