Windows XP zero-day Exploit

[poppameth1]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178084/Hackers_exploit_Windows_XP_zero_day_Microsoft_confirms

Info on the Windows XP Zero Day Exploit and a temporary fix until a security update is issued.

 

[Journia]

intriguing. Bill Gates will Nip the proverbial Nail...

 

[JustJules]

Best way to avoid this problem is to stop using the outdated Suck Box that is Windows XP 😉

 

[poppameth1]

WinXP still has it's place. There is too much hardware that won't run the new systems properly and would be expensive to upgrade unnecessarily, especially in a business environment.

 

[JustJules]

WinXP still has it's place. There is too much hardware that won't run the new systems properly and would be expensive to upgrade unnecessarily, especially in a business environment.

A volume environment will always be difficult to overhaul. It's not practical to run multiple versions at the same time, since that makes support costs go higher because apparently there are a lot of people who are too brain-dead to use computers properly.

As for Windows XP's place? It's in the technological garbage can. By hardware that won't run "new systems" properly, that would have to be boxes from before 2004 or so. I've run Windows Vista on boxes as low-end as a Celeron 633 with 512MB of RAM and didn't really find much of a loss over Windows XP. In fact, there was a great gain because it wasn't like using Windows Me with a bad theme.