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To: goldstategop

No one is going to develop malware for a “dead” operating system.

Wrong.

100% wrong.

Who better to attack than folks whose guardians just walked away?

28 posted on 04/13/2014 4:25:41 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)

To: Izzy Dunne; goldstategop

>> No one is going to develop malware for a “dead” operating system.

> Wrong. 100% wrong. Who better to attack than folks whose guardians just walked away?

XP and Vista/7 share 90% of their code. Every month, the bad guys will examine the patches Microsoft produces for Vista/7, determine where the code flaw was, and find that same flaw in XP. Then they will exploit it in XP.

By stopping security update support for XP, while the nearly identical code is still getting updates, Microsoft is handing the bad guys a freakin' map of XP flaws to exploit. THAT is the problem.

46 posted on 04/13/2014 7:54:44 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)

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