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Updates finish in April next year. Will we all have to migrate to 7/8 or will the Anti-virus, Antimalware and spybots be good enough to keep us safe?
I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 26 October 2013 at 8:46AM
    The merchants of doom and those who stand to make financial gain will say the world will end with a multitide of zero day exploits. Well zero day and any exploits only get exploited if you hit a site that has been infected AND your AV doesn't detect it.

    backup, use a virus scanner, if the world does end, put the backup back on, and carry on.
    !!
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  • dogmaryxx
    dogmaryxx Posts: 2,446 Forumite
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    Extending Chrome support for XP users until April 2015
    On April 8, 2014, after more than a decade of powering many of the world’s computers, Windows XP will officially retire. Like all technologies that come to their end-of-life, the XP operating system and most of its desktop applications will no longer receive updates and security patches. Since unpatched browser bugs are often used by malware to infect computers, we’re extending support for Chrome on Windows XP, and will continue to provide regular updates and security patches until at least April 2015.

    We recognize that hundreds of millions of users, including a good chunk of current Chrome users, still rely on XP. Moreover, many organizations still run dozens or even hundreds of applications on XP and may have trouble migrating. Our goal is to support Chrome for XP users during this transition process. Most importantly, Chrome on XP will still be automatically updated with the latest security fixes to protect against malware and phishing attacks.

    If you’re an IT administrator and your employees depend on web applications built for older browsers, you can use Legacy Browser Support to set Chrome as the primary browser and limit the usage of the unsupported, legacy browser to only specific web apps. See Chrome for Business to learn more about how to deploy and manage Chrome for an organization.

    Mark Larson, Director of Engineering and Superintendent of Public Safety, Google Chrome

    From:http://chrome.blogspot.de/2013/10/extending-chrome-support-for-xp-users.html
  • grumpycrab
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    edited 26 October 2013 at 10:53AM
    Not wishing to force any MSE readers to spend money unnecessarily, but if you are considering upgrading from XP (or Vista, or 7) to 8, here's a quick guide :-

    1. check whether your computer can take 8
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/upgrade-assistant-download-online-faq
    (for the purposes of this guide please ignore 8.1)

    2. The upgrade to 8 is still available (at time of writing) for about £55 from
    http://www.box.co.uk/Windows_8_Pro_Upgrade_3UR-00006_from_Any_1268069.html
    (also available for the same price from the Box Ebay Store)

    You should know that the subsequent (free) upgrade to 8.1 is a bit of a time-waster, to say the least, but 8.0 will be supported for 2 years I believe should you wish to postpone the upgrade to 8.1 to a later date.
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  • KxMx
    KxMx Posts: 11,115 Forumite
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    It's personal choice really. Some are happy to carry on with beefed up AV, other's think it's too much of a risk and will opt to upgrade.
  • Jivesinger
    Jivesinger Posts: 1,221 Forumite
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    grumpycrab wrote: »
    2. The upgrade to 8 is still available (at time of writing) for about £55 from
    http://www.box.co.uk/Windows_8_Pro_Upgrade_3UR-00006_from_Any_1268069.html
    (also available for the same price from the Box Ebay Store)
    Just to note that if anyone does want to go to Windows 8, (or use it as a cheap way into 8.1) do it now.

    Amazon have just hiked their Windows 8 prices up from about £60 to over £100, and I guess the other retailers will follow before too long, so if you can grab one of the links above at £55, do it sooner rather than later.
  • Sorry to be stupid, but if I do nothing (I have XP), what happens?
    O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

    (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us
    .)

    Robert Burns
  • grumpycrab
    grumpycrab Posts: 5,025 Forumite
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    read second post
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  • waddler_8
    waddler_8 Posts: 3,588 Forumite
    Sorry to be stupid, but if I do nothing (I have XP), what happens?

    Your computer becomes more susceptible to a malware infection.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    waddler_8 wrote: »
    Your computer becomes more susceptible to a malware infection.

    As is suggested above, won't that be somewhat dependant on which browser is in use?

    And also, anyone not using their XP machine for web access won't be more susceptible to anything...
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    Sorry to be stupid, but if I do nothing (I have XP), what happens?

    Your PC works as it did before day zero.

    Some people will suggest that there are lots of folk out there waiting to release their malware and viruses on day zero + 1, but haven't shown any proof of this.
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