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On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 01:32:43PM +0000, Simon Avery wrote: > What's also interesting is the increasing evidence that hackers are > preparing for a major attack on XP machines once support finishes - and > it's likely they have a bunch of unused exploits waiting for the day > they're safe to deploy them knowing they'll never be patched. I haven't seen any such evidence, other than people making informed guesses, but I can also come of with some sensible arguments why this won't be the case. I know there are still many machines running XP, but what I haven't seen much of are numbers of XP machines that aren't either running a very old version, or are run by sysadmins that know what they're doing and have secured the system in other ways. It's those machines for whom the situation will become a lot worse after 8 April. (Machines that haven't been patched in ages are a real problem, but they won't become more vulnerable when Microsoft stops rolling out patches.) > This isn't Microsoft's fault, they've already given support way beyond what > may have been expected; although perhaps an easier upgrade path (and > simpler licencing) would have encouraged more systems to have been > replaced. +1 to both. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq