Wednesday, June 14th 2017
Microsoft Issues Another Windows XP Patch, Despite Lack of Support
In a bid to stop what it terms "state-sponsored cyberattacks," Microsoft has released yet another critical patch for its Windows XP operating system. This one is aimed at stemming the tide of what many are calling "WannaCry Copycats." Technically speaking, WannaCry itself is a copycat of a much older idea (ransomware in general), but it was the first to spread so effectively via an unpatched Windows-specific platform bug, and as such has in many ways acted as a global "wake up call" for the industry to get their security act together. The true fix is of course to upgrade, but for those who won't or can't, Microsoft is making select critical fixes available to mitigate the damage.Microsoft still maintains that Windows XP is an unsupported platform, and emphasizes that fixes for it will be rare. However, the fact that we are getting unsupported fixes at all certainly speaks volumes to the state of the security industry in general, and how much old software there really is running to this day.
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26 Comments on Microsoft Issues Another Windows XP Patch, Despite Lack of Support
And honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if there is one brewing right now...
Or what if it would cause months of downtime and employee adjustement while your business is life critical (like hospitals).
Concerning companies with tailored software... well a matter of time... Actually a don't believe these days there are not solutions for any kind of business needs for reasonable prices, they are almost begging to help and get some penny. I wonder why the device haven't kicked the bucket in the first place... We had some ridiculous discussion why in hell X58 is still alive... here we have Athlons and pentium III and IV running the OS.
Really the CPU arch restriction is the killer of XP.
I dread to think what this new era of "Internet of things" will bring though, such as when current tech becomes obsolete and it's fully internet enabled with no updates... Personally, I'd just run Windows Update, though. What restriction? There was an Itanium-64 bit version of XP before normal amd64, remember.
Except, ironically, the Chinese... Sauce?
I certainly do not want it :D It bsods just as I look at it... (remember half life) Hmm maybe this?
Where do you download Win Xp free?
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/download-links-for-all-microsoft-wannacrypt-patches.233492/
The security updates just released Tuesday, CVE-2017-0176(KB4022747), CVE-2017-7269(KB3197835), CVE-2017-8461(KB4024323), and CVE-2017-8487(KB4025218) are here:
support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687/microsoft-security-advisory-4025685-guidance-for-older-platforms
Ironically, it probably runs just fine if you set your HDD to IDE mode and are fine with a 2GB FAT partition. Non-issue.