Thread: So who's staying XPut?
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Old 04-28-2014, 12:19 PM   #54
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan View Post
The dangers of staying with XP have been overstated by the tech media.
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
No, they haven't. You can make a personal decision to stay with XP, I don't care. But don't tell people that XP is safe. When it was released, well over 10 years ago, it was a great OS that provided more security than any before it. But we live in a different world today, and XP is simply not up to the game.
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Originally Posted by Glorfindel View Post
You may be able to keep it safe, but only if you keep it disconnected from the internet, there will be new vulnerabilities found as time goes on, never to be fixed.
Like the security flaw just discovered in Internet Explorer, for instance. From a Reuters news item dated yesterday:

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Microsoft Corp is rushing to fix a bug in its widely used Internet Explorer web browser after a computer security firm disclosed the flaw over the weekend, saying hackers have already exploited it in attacks on some U.S. companies.

PCs running Windows XP will not receive any updates fixing that bug when they are released, however, because Microsoft stopped supporting the 13-year-old operating system earlier this month.
Full story here.
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