New IE Vulnerability: XP Users Take Note
Microsoft Warns of Attacks on IE Zero-Day I know the XP topic has been covered extensively and that most XP users here are wise enough to not be IE users, but just in case anyone is still using IE ...
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bwanshoom wrote:
As yet, there is no patch for this issue on any OS. When a patch is released it will not be for XP. That and the fact that the current mitigation options involving EMET 4.1 will not work on XP make this a larger problem for XP users.
Not an XP prob at all if using FF or Chrome.
I suspect that by now, the only XP machines using IE (maybe IE8) are big institutions whose employees are hard to retrain or whose software is too tied in to MS. These institutions (and all of us)are paying for MS security patches for their XP boxes, so even they are safe using IE.
The most common users of the more recent and SO MUCH MORE SECURE MS software (IE 9, 10, 11) appear to be the primary hacker targeted victims of the current exploit.
