![]() To be clear, ESET is not advocating the use of Windows XP in this day and age. The goal of publishing our paper is to help people secure those computers until those operating systems can be upgraded. ![]() ![]() For various reasons, they are not being replaced with newer, more secure operating systems. While that may not sound like much, it means there may be somewhat over 80 million computers out there still using Windows XP. There are over a billion devices running Microsoft Windows–perhaps as many as 1.5 billion devices, depending upon which statistics you look at–and the number of them running Windows XP has stayed about the same over the last few quarters at around 5.5 percent. You can download the white paper here (2.5MB, PDF). Yet today, ESET is announcing the publication of a white paper on how to maintain this well past its end-of-life operating system. It’s probably surprising to see a blog post discussing Windows XP’s security in 2018, except perhaps when mentioning the operating system in a historical context. We are still leaving it in the white paper for historical reasons. ![]() UPDATE (19 April – 04:45 CEST): Flexera, the developer of the Secunia PSI software mentioned in the white paper, has announced that it is being discontinued on April 20, 2018. Using the strategies and procedures we present in our paper could help prevent an attacker from taking control of your computer ![]()
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