Microsoft Warns Of Malware Tsunami For Windows XP Stragglers:

Windows XP users are already warned of the greater degree of vulnerability to malware attacks that Windows 7 or Windows 8. But, some users are still not moving one inch away off of Windows XP OS to migrate to Win7 or 8. In the meantime, here's another warning from Microsoft declaring it is that Windows XP users will be exposed to a variety of malicious security threats. webroot.com/safe

No security update for Windows XP

Tim Rains from Director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft warned Windows XP users through a Webroot blog article in which he stated that Windows XP operating system will no longer receive security updates from the 8th of April, 2014 since Microsoft has stopped providing service to Windows XP Service Pack 2. So, Windows XP Service Pack 2 Windows OS will be prone to 66 percent higher rate in infections as compared to Windows XP Service Pack 3.

Following the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3, Service Pack 3 users are likely to see similar results as Microsoft will release last updates to this edition. This means that Windows XP version is likely to be vulnerable to a floods of malware. Microsoft suggests Windows XP stragglers to migrate to Windows 8 as this latest OS is approximately six times less vulnerable to malware-related attacks.

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