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|    Alan Zisman to TOM WALKER    |
|    MS un-kills MSSE for    |
|    12 Mar 14 12:36:10    |
      On 2014-03-12, 6:14 AM, TOM WALKER -> BOB KLAHN wrote:               DS>>> I have to wonder if the warnings of "zero day        DS>>> vulnerabilities to turn XP systems into zombi-bots" is        DS>>> just a "scare tactic" by Microsoft, to get people to        DS>>> throw away perfectly good working hardware and software,        DS>>> just to satisfy their corporate bank account.               BK>> I absolutely believe that to be true.               TW> And as less and less win XP systems are out there the "Glory" of doing        TW> that becomes less attractive. ALL the Glory for the hackers is in        TW> attacking the latest and greatest MicroSoft programs and Operating        TW> Systems.        TW> ---       While once upon a time, malware writing, etc may have been for 'glory', for       the past decade or so it has been predominately for $$$. With an estimated 250       million XP systems remaining, if there is money to be made in exploiting       security weaknesses, that will happen.              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunde        * Origin: Fidonet Via Newsreader - http://www.easternstar.info (1:123/789.0)    |
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