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0 pointskunai12y ago0 comments

This notion that there will suddenly be 5000 gazillion 0days as soon as XP loses support in April, and that as soon as you go on the Google homepage on May 1st, is ridiculous and absurd.

I've been running unsupported XP SP2 on one of my older machines for over a year now. It's connected, runs applications, email, and internet services. No hacks, no worms, no rootkits, no nothing.

Just use a good antivirus and you'll be fine. AFAIK there hasn't even BEEN a 0 day patch for XP in more than 3 years.

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hrjet12y ago· 2 in thread

Just curious. How can one be sure that there is no worms or rootkits installed?

kunaiOP12y ago

I'm not quite a security expert, ask tptacek for confirmation, but you can never be sure. However, signs do start to crop up, and I haven't had any of the supposed "symptoms" of something like TSS/TDSS.

Shorel12y ago

Sysinternal utilities for me.

They even created the original rootkit detector.

viraptor12y ago

I think that if I had a 0day at this point, I'd wait until May to use it - exactly because the support ends and MS is unlikely to release a patch. Since lots of people will not care enough to upgrade, that could be a gold mine :)

arthulia12y ago

It doesn't take 5000 gazillion; it only takes one.

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