Windows XP Warned

[OSIRUS]

I noticed yesterday at the Local Doctors Surgery all the Computers I could see were still running Windows XP .......

[Landytrack]

Yes that is my way of thinking as I remarked in another post. Best to avoid home banking or financial transactions or visiting hot porn websites and keep a up to date virus scanner running and you should be safe.

Last night when shutting down my XP computer was surprised to see the windows icon appear on the shutdown screen advising it was installing an update !

Hope its not Microsoft installing some sort of bug ?

[Dave001]

i've installed XP multiple times without ever turning on updates and they have and (I suspect) will run fine! O keep your AV and Spyware up to date though.

The only time those hundreds of NECESSARY updates were needed is if you were using IE or some other MS crap that the hackers exploited. And I agree use another browser! That has ALWAYS been the case. Mozilla firefox 28 and not chrome!

cmangle, take any one of your XP systems, that you have removed IE from, and click on Windows Update, and up pops IE, with all it's vulnerabilities.

If you don't want to upgrade, that's fine, I still plan on running an XP system here myself, if you don't want to patch the existing vulnerabilities in your XP system, again your choice, it's your system, but your statement "The only time those hundreds of NECESSARY updates were needed is if you were using IE or some other MS crap that the hackers exploited" is just plain wrong, and if followed, your average computer user is leaving themselves open to hundreds of vulnerabilities/attacks, already circulating on the internet.
I can't remember the last time my virus software found a virus, should I be telling everyone virus software is not needed, of course not, you're average computer user is trying to download some kind of virus/malware weekly, they need all the protection they can get.

To me it's really depends on what you are using the system for, If it's used daily, for internet banking, online purchases, personal emails, then I would upgrade to an OS that is still being updated, why take the chance. If you're not doing anything critical, then XP should have a few more years left in it.

[jwoegerbauer]

I can't remember the last time my virus software found a virus, should I be telling everyone virus software is not needed, of course not, you're average computer user is trying to download some kind of virus/malware weekly, they need all the protection they can get.

Fact is, that the biggest security problem of any operating system is the one who sits in front of the screen. Prudent ones even without further Microsoft XP support can continue using XP.

[mikelouis]

I think the news about the end of support for XP was running for months so I do not see if any business would be dumb enough to still keep it until now. Just saying.

[lsemmens]

I just set up two computers over the last couple of days, both with XP and they still managed to download all the updates from M$ even though support was supposed to have finished on the 14th.