News - Microsoft sees rise in attacks on XP machines

[HEXUS]

Help and Support vulnerability affecting over 10,000 machines.

Read more.

[abaxas]

In other news.....

VW says the previous Golf is a deathtrap, upgrade to the latest one immediatly.

[rabbid]

In other news.....

VW says the previous Golf is a deathtrap, upgrade to the latest one immediatly.

yeah, you get that feeling don't you? "xp isnt safe so buy win7." kinda thing!

Anyway from their bulletin do this (backup and delete HCP entry):

"Unregistering the HCP Protocol prevents this issue from being exploited on affected systems.

Using the Interactive Method
1.
Click Start, click Run, type Regedit in the Open box, and then click OK

2.
Locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HCP

3.
Click the File menu and select Export

4.
In the Export Registry File dialog box, enter HCP_Procotol_Backup.reg and click Save.

Note This will create a backup of this registry key in the My Documents folder by default.

5.
Press the Delete key on the keyboard to delete the registry key. When prompted to delete the registry key via the Confirm Key Delete dialog box, click Yes"

Feel safer already

[usxhe190]

So only Windows XP is affected??? Stop telling people to upgrade, Microsoft!!

[spoon_]

Typical

[joel_spencer]

When I did my last slip stream install I removed the help files thus negating the issue I would think. Used Nlite.