Banking with Windows XP

18cc

An analogy would be if a bank continued to run its High Street branches from wooden sheds rather than upgrading to the latest newfangled brick buildings

it's not that you can't run a bank from a wooden shed it's just that it's far less secure

Nationwide and most of the banks have said that they will no longer be supporting such an antiquated piece of kit as XP (which by the way most of us love and miss - that is not the issue - the issue is security).

eskbanker

18cc wrote: »

Nationwide and most of the banks have said that they will no longer be supporting such an antiquated piece of kit as XP (which by the way most of us love and miss - that is not the issue - the issue is security).

Extravagant generalisation alert, even less supportable than XP!

Gadfium

Brian65 wrote: »

Anyone else still using XP?
Anyone know what makes XP users more vulnerable to online banking scams?

Its a 19 year old operating system that hasn't had any security or vulnerability updates for over 5 years.

You are nuts to still be using it.


HTH

Brian65

Gadfium wrote: »

Its a 19 year old operating system that hasn't had any security or vulnerability updates for over 5 years.
HTH

Actually the latest Microsoft Windows XP security update was KB4500331 on 5/9/2019
But the question was how do Scammers get into XP?
and can it be avoided by not downloading attachments, etc?

Brian65

eskbanker wrote: »

Extravagant generalisation alert, even less supportable than XP!

Well I love and miss Windows XP whenever I go on Windows 10 :mad:
Thats why I changed back to XP and stayed with it for so long.

eskbanker

Brian65 wrote: »

Well I love and miss Windows XP whenever I go on Windows 10 :mad:
Thats why I changed back to XP and stayed with it for so long.

Sure, I'm not denying that some are resistant to change and regard XP as some sort of utopian ideal, but was simply challenging the assertion that most 'love and miss' it! Personally I don't think I've ever loved any operating system....

Brian65

eskbanker wrote: »

Sure, I'm not denying that some are resistant to change and regard XP as some sort of utopian ideal, but was simply challenging the assertion that most 'love and miss' it! Personally I don't think I've ever loved any operating system....

I guess its because I know my way around the old operating system, and all the programmes I have bought and got used to work on it.

Prism

Brian65 wrote: »

Actually the latest Microsoft Windows XP security update was KB4500331 on 5/9/2019
But the question was how do Scammers get into XP?
and can it be avoided by not downloading attachments, etc?

No, visiting a website is enough. You don't have to download anything

Brian65

EdSwippet wrote: »

Google commits to updating Chromebooks for at least five years, though they actually update for six and a half, to allow for a product's marketing cycle. The update is both operating system and browser, because the two are pretty well inseparable on a Chromebook. After that, you may or may not get further updates, depending on the capability of the hardware. Details here:

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en

I have two Chromebooks. After sterling service, my old Samsung one finally stopped receiving operating system and browser updates late last year. I now use it as a lightweight Linux system, through Crouton. Its keyboard had become flaky (wore out the backspace key!), so it was time for a replacement anyway.

Thanks for the link. I've learned something from that. Apparently this Chromebook 14 (CB3-431) I bought from Lidl last month stops updating in Jun 2021. Perhaps thats why they were reduced to £180

pafpcg

eskbanker wrote: »

Sure, I'm not denying that some are resistant to change and regard XP as some sort of utopian ideal, but was simply challenging the assertion that most 'love and miss' it! Personally I don't think I've ever loved any operating system....

Why change because some profit-maximisation outfit wants to keep its customers on an "upgrade" treadmill? Most OS "upgrades" are no such thing and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!". Royal Navy submarines are still running a hardened version of Windows2000 (known as colloquially as 'Windows for Warships').

It was years before I switched from Windows2000 to XP - faster & leaner than XP, but it wasn't ever loved - that category is populated by George3, PC-DOS5 and Netware5 (we love them as much for their idiosyncracies as their refusal to quit).

PS: for the security conscious, we've long switched to a hardened Linux OS running in a virtual environment. To carry-out anything sensitive, just load a fresh instance and delete when finished. Then you can go back to playing Solitaire in Windows or whatever floats your boat....