[AccessD] Future of Windows XP

Doug,

  Interesting; so Microsoft now admits their selling us the same stuff over
and over<g>:

"But after April 8, 2014, organizations that continue to run Windows XP
won’t have this advantage over attackers any longer.  The very first month
that Microsoft releases security updates for supported versions of Windows,
attackers will reverse engineer those updates, find the vulnerabilities and
test Windows XP to see if it shares those vulnerabilities.  If it does,
attackers will attempt to develop exploit code that can take advantage of
those vulnerabilities on Windows XP.  Since a security update will never
become available for Windows XP to address these vulnerabilities, Windows XP
will essentially have a “zero day” vulnerability forever. "

  It is however an excellent point.   Maybe it still will be a target.  It's
still much more entrenched then one would think (I'm using it on this one
station now).

  But I should also add that every client I have and myself will be pushed
off XP before the dead line.

Jim.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 05:18 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Windows XP

Jim, here is an article which has the opposite opinion about Windows XP
security:

http://www.zdnet.com/your-perilous-future-on-windows-xp-7000019721/?s_cid=e5
39&ttag=e539
''

Here is the lead paragraph:

"You've been getting warned for ages about the impending end of support for
XP. Things are even worse than you've heard (especially if you run Internet
Explorer). Expect a flood of new vulnerabilities and no help for them."

Doug


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote:

>
>  Sorry, but I think your being naïve and silly<g>.
>
>  There's been plenty of announcement about it, so they've more then
covered
> their butts on it.
>
>  I think when you'll hear a lot of screaming is when Office 365 drops
> support for the POP3 protocol.  Outlook 2003 and a bunch of other mail
> clients will no longer work with it.
>
>  Besides, XP is safer; all the hackers are now focused on Windows 7 and
> 8<g>.   XP has been patched and patched.   Don't know how many security
> holes are actually left in it.
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Benson
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 05:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Windows XP
>
> I want to say that nobody replied to assertions in my post. I am really
> curious what the rest of this group thinks Microsoft will do in terms of
> security patches for Windows XP users left behind. Am I just being silly
> and naive to think that Microsoft would not dare such users dangling in
the
> wind?
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