Microsoft: SMBs are at dire risk when opening email on Windows XP machines
In its almost daily effort to convince Windows XP die-hards to finally give up their old machines, Microsoft has posted a security advisory about all the terrible things that might happen after it switches off Windows XP support on 8 April.
In a very lengthy post on the Microsoft security blog titled 'Cyber threats to Windows XP and guidance for Small Businesses and Individual Consumers', Tim Rains, director of the Redmond firm's Trustworthy Computing Group, lays out five fearsome threats facing Windows XP users.
These risks are: surfing the web; opening email or using instant messaging; using removable drives; worms and ransomware. Rains also offers some pretty standard advice on how to deal with these threats.
