Your system is at risk. Maybe not a great deal now but it will be more
and more so as time goes on.
My favourite analogy:
Think of XP as a an old ship and your anti virus as the bilge pump.
You can keep upgrading the pump to remove the water coming in but if you
dont upgrade the hull then the holes will just keep getting bigger.
On 08/04/2014 13:53, Gerald Levy wrote:
A few days ago, I posted that the Microsoft Security Essentials icon in the System Tray of my XP PC was reporting its status as "potentially unprotected". This morning, after I booted up and checked the System Tray, the MSE icon is now reporting my PC status as "At Risk". Here is the message that is displayed on the MSE Home tab:
PC status: At risk
Support for this operating system has ended, which means Microsoft Security
Essentials is no longer supported and your PC is at risk. To make
sure your PC stays
protected, click the link below to see our end-of-support guidance for
operating systems.
While it is true that support for XP itself has ended, the XP version of MSE continues to function.
I successfully updated the database definitions manually and ran a quick scan to verify this. So
if MSE is still working, then my PC is not really "At Risk", as the System Tray icon
reports, and I can only conclude that this is nothing less than shameless scare mongering on the
part of MS. Contrary to the message above,reliable sources claim that support for MSE will
continue through July, 2015. So what is really going on? Are any other MSE users who are still
running XP also getting the "At Risk" icon in their System Tray?
Gerald
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