Posted May 14, 2017

shojotea
Sims please!
Registered: May 2012
From United States

pimpmonkey2382.313
You are obsolete. Delete!
Registered: Jan 2011
From United States
Posted May 14, 2017
I mean, seriously, if people can't see that this is really a whole, world wide conspiracy against the Atari 800, I don't know what to tell ya.

shojotea
Sims please!
Registered: May 2012
From United States
Posted May 14, 2017
And I thought it was against the PDP 11/40. I can't believe how blind I have been!

pimpmonkey2382.313
You are obsolete. Delete!
Registered: Jan 2011
From United States
Posted May 14, 2017
On a more serious note, I'd really like to have an Atari 800, or at least a 400.

JMich
A Horrible Human Person. If you need me, chat.
Registered: Apr 2011
From Greece
Posted May 14, 2017
Assuming you are talking about the WhyCry (or similar), the vulnerability was part of SMB and was present in most (if not all) versions of Windows. The patch for said vulnerability was released a month or so ago, for all OS still getting security updates.
A Win7 without said update is as vulnerable as any WinXP machine, but a patched Win7 machine is not vulnerable.
Tell me if you want me to find said patch, though it may need to wait until tomorrow.
A Win7 without said update is as vulnerable as any WinXP machine, but a patched Win7 machine is not vulnerable.
Tell me if you want me to find said patch, though it may need to wait until tomorrow.

mechmouse
gog n' cogs
Registered: Mar 2013
From United Kingdom

Fonzer
Uncle robo cat
Registered: Apr 2015
From Slovenia
Posted May 14, 2017
Actually because of these hacking events xp also got a new patch,but i wonder how a pirated xp os sp3 should be updated?

blakstar
ShadowKnows
Registered: Oct 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted May 15, 2017

A Win7 without said update is as vulnerable as any WinXP machine, but a patched Win7 machine is not vulnerable.
Tell me if you want me to find said patch, though it may need to wait until tomorrow.

And you are quite right about the need to patch. But you can't patch without a patch, and XP hasn't been getting patches for quite some time.
Win7 has also left mainstream support, yet I believe is still getting critical patches.
The point is XP is more vulnerable, because even fully patched there are plenty of exploits which have been addressed in later versions.
Not to say newer OSes are 100% safe, rather their discovered vulnerabilities are being patched.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/

Kaesemeister
Maître fromager affineur
Registered: Feb 2016
From Switzerland
Posted May 15, 2017
Don't drop the XP support please.I still have a XP OS on my old PC, which i'm using for old games and it is up to date thanks to the Windows XP POSReady 2009 registry hack.
Post edited May 15, 2017 by Kaesemeister

mechmouse
gog n' cogs
Registered: Mar 2013
From United Kingdom
Posted May 15, 2017

And you are quite right about the need to patch. But you can't patch without a patch, and XP hasn't been getting patches for quite some time.
Win7 has also left mainstream support, yet I believe is still getting critical patches.
The point is XP is more vulnerable, because even fully patched there are plenty of exploits which have been addressed in later versions.
Not to say newer OSes are 100% safe, rather their discovered vulnerabilities are being patched.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/

blakstar
ShadowKnows
Registered: Oct 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted May 15, 2017

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/

EDIT: I do agree with you, though, that WIndows XP shouldn't still be used in any critical systems after all this time.
Post edited May 15, 2017 by blakstar

dudalb
New User
Registered: Sep 2009
From United States
Posted May 15, 2017
XP is like DOS:an excellent operating system in it's time, but it's time is past.
With more and more online appllications requiring a 64 system,the situation is just going to get worse.(one of the main reasons for the demise of XP it did not work well with 64 bit; XP 64 was a fiasco).
Keep XP in a Virtual Machine, or in a Dual Boot, or as old Computer for the exlcusive purpose of playing games, but DON"T go on the Internet with it;you are begging for trouble.
Please explain why GOG should go the expense of supporting a OS whose user base is shrinking by the day.
BTW if you are insisting on running your GOG games in XP, I suspect that most of the GOG games (except for the post 2009 ones) will run on a XP computer,even if the installer does not work. Install the game on a more recent Windows systems, and then just move or copy it to your XP drive.
Kaesemeister: Don't drop the XP support please.I still have a XP OS on my old PC, which i'm using for old games and it is up to date thanks to the Windows XP POSReady 2009 registry hack. WHne you have to hacke the registry to get a system to function,time to switch to a new system.
Nonsense, the real conspiracy is against CP/M......
With more and more online appllications requiring a 64 system,the situation is just going to get worse.(one of the main reasons for the demise of XP it did not work well with 64 bit; XP 64 was a fiasco).
Keep XP in a Virtual Machine, or in a Dual Boot, or as old Computer for the exlcusive purpose of playing games, but DON"T go on the Internet with it;you are begging for trouble.
Please explain why GOG should go the expense of supporting a OS whose user base is shrinking by the day.
BTW if you are insisting on running your GOG games in XP, I suspect that most of the GOG games (except for the post 2009 ones) will run on a XP computer,even if the installer does not work. Install the game on a more recent Windows systems, and then just move or copy it to your XP drive.

Nonsense, the real conspiracy is against CP/M......
Post edited May 15, 2017 by dudalb

Cadaver747
Registered: Mar 2009
From Russian Federation
Posted May 15, 2017
Probably you have missed the news, Microsoft drops official support for Windows XP as of 8th April 2014
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14223/windows-xp-end-of-support
And "stupid-stupid" game developers don't use DirecX 9 for some reason.
But for GOG's sake I don't get WHY GOG can't support DOS operation system officially >>> Hah-hah-hah [homeric laughter] ;))))
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14223/windows-xp-end-of-support
And "stupid-stupid" game developers don't use DirecX 9 for some reason.
But for GOG's sake I don't get WHY GOG can't support DOS operation system officially >>> Hah-hah-hah [homeric laughter] ;))))

Ganni1987
'My Rewards' is DRM
Registered: Sep 2011
From Malta
Posted May 17, 2017



Themken
Old user
Registered: Nov 2011
From Other
Posted May 18, 2017


That computer beats my current one...