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Windows XP Issues after loss of support
Posted on 7/1/14 at 8:17 am
Posted on 7/1/14 at 8:17 am
I'm working on a project for work and was trying to find some information on the current status with any issues for XP. Leading up to XP support being ended, we saw a ton of warning about how malware for XP was going to be spreading like wild fire. I have been unable to find any articles or info on whether or not this has/is happening. Does anyone have any insight or info they might have read lately?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
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Posted on 7/1/14 at 8:40 am to TigerRob20
I haven't heard of any incidents and it may not happen for a while. The thought is patches to current windows will give malware writers a map of where to attack XP. If you have active XP machines that access the internet make certain you have current anti-virus and anti-malware software actively running. I'd also switch the default browser from IE since they won't be updating it anymore. That won't 100% protect you, but it's as good as you can get if you have to run XP.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 9:32 am to TigerinATL
Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it!
Posted on 7/1/14 at 11:24 am to TigerRob20
Not sure if it was related to XP, but I just upgraded my mom to Windows 7 because she was having a lot of malware issues.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 11:27 am to Jimbeaux28
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Windows
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a lot of malware
Pretty typical.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 8:34 pm to TigerRob20
I thought there was a security hole in IE that enabled an attacker to run code on your machine. I also thought that wasn't going to be patched on IE8 and earlier. So, there's that, unless something changed.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 8:43 pm to TigerRob20
Why not just upgrade? A Windows upgrade is much less expensive that losing client data, getting sued and the plaintiff finding out you knowingly failed to upgrade.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 3:31 am to Casty McBoozer
I received an IE8 update after the support ended. I assumed it was for the security hole.
Too much trouble to pull the old box out of storage at this time.......
Too much trouble to pull the old box out of storage at this time.......
Posted on 7/2/14 at 3:47 am to foshizzle
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Why not just upgrade? A Windows upgrade is much less expensive that losing client data, getting sued and the plaintiff finding out you knowingly failed to upgrade.
Not saying it applies here, but I have had to work with computers running 3.1 or 95 fairly recently due to having technical software the licences to which are extremely expensive.
They keep to the old systems because it gets the job done and they don't want to spend the thousand (s) of dollars an upgrade would entail.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 3:50 pm to Jimbeaux28
I didn't realize Microsoft ever did anything to stop Malware or virus attacks. If they've been trying, I take back all the terrible things I've said about Apple and their stupid fricking cult.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 3:59 pm to TigerRob20
No XP updates... naaaaah
Fire up regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\. Create a new Key called PosReady. Right click the new key and add a new DWORD with the value 1. That’s it. Now head along to the Windows Update website and you should see a bunch of updates.
Fire up regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\. Create a new Key called PosReady. Right click the new key and add a new DWORD with the value 1. That’s it. Now head along to the Windows Update website and you should see a bunch of updates.
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