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Keeping XP Secure

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 05 2014, @03:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the unplugging-the-network-cable dept.

Appalbarry writes:

"Microsoft is about to abandon Windows XP to the wolves. Fair enough it's ancient. However, there are still going to be a lot of XP boxes out there, and a fair number of them are unlikely to ever get upgraded until the hardware dies.

My question is: what's available to help make this old OS stay reasonably secure and safe for the people who can't or won't abandon it?

Over the years I've been through Central Point Antivirus, Norton, McAfee, AVG, stuff like Zone Alarm, and of course the various Microsoft anti-malware offerings. But since moving over to Linux I really haven't kept up on the wild and wonderful world of Windows security tools.

Suggestions?"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Wednesday March 05 2014, @04:41PM

    by GeminiDomino (661) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @04:41PM (#11506)

    Personal anecdotal evidence says: your mother-in-law. The teenage boys probably aren't on XP anymore unless they're on their grandmother's computers now. :)

    Still, when it comes to solutions, you have to develop for the X factor. "Education" didn't cut it for the past 13 years, why would it work now?

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