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Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP
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| Microsoft says it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed
| Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The news
| adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list that
| previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4. 'We're talking about code
| that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code
| is essentially not feasible,' said security program manager Adrian Stone
| during Microsoft's monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000
| and XP.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/15/0131209/Microsoft-Says-No-TCPIP-Patches-For-XP
Microsoft: No TCP/IP patches for you, XP
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| Microsoft late last week said it won't patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs
| it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
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| The news adds Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and SP3 to the no-patch list |
| that previously included only Windows 2000 Server SP4.
|
| [...]
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| The bugs in question are in Windows' implementation of TCP/IP, the Web's
| default suite of connection protocols. All three of the vulnerabilities
| highlighted in the MS09-048 update were patched in Vista and Server 2008.
| Only two of the trio affect Windows Server 2000 and Windows XP, Microsoft
| said in the accompanying advisory, which was refreshed on Thursday.
|
| [...]
|
| During the Q&A, however, Windows users repeatedly asked Microsoft's
| security team to explain why it wasn't patching XP, or if, in certain
| scenarios, their machines might be at risk. "We still use Windows XP and we
| do not use Windows Firewall," read one of the user questions. "We use a
| third-party vendor firewall product. Even assuming that we use the Windows
| Firewall, if there are services listening, such as remote desktop, wouldn't
| then Windows XP be vulnerable to this?"
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138007/Microsoft_No_TCP_IP_patches_for_you_XP
So long, XP.
Great news for GNU/Linux!
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