<p dir="ltr">XP is no longer receiving security patches from Microsoft, and hasn't been for some time. There are known remote exploits that aren't going to be fixed, ever.</p>
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<div>On 4/16/2014 4:14 AM, Wladimir wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello,<br>
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<p>Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to
not do internet banking with Windows XP.</p>
<p>If it is no longer secure enough for online banking
it's CERTAINLY not secure enough to run a wallet (for a
node only it would be ok-ish as they have no keys to
protect).</p>
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Any opinions on what to do here? Just warn and allow the user
to continue? Redirect them to a 'Windows XP is dangerous'
message on <a href="http://bitcoin.org" target="_blank">bitcoin.org</a>? (Microsoft uses <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help" target="_blank">http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help</a>)<br>
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<div>The drawback of dropping XP support completely would be
that a lot of computers (especially in China and Russia etc)
are still running XP, so this could cause the network to lose
nodes.<br>
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If you're maintainer of other wallet software: how are you
handling this?<br>
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<div>Are you going to drop XP support completely? If so,
starting from when?<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Wladimir<br>
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I think we should get to the bottom of this. Should we assume that
xp is not secure enough? What is this warning? Who is issuing this
warning?<br>
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