WinXP 10 birthday safety researcher calls to uninstall it

Sina Science and technology news August 25 morning, the Internet monitoring agency StatCounter said in Wednesday, Microsoft Windows XP (hereinafter referred to as "Win XP") ushered in its 10 birthday, currently nearly half of the world's computers are still using this operating system. Although win XP achieved extraordinary achievements, but on the 10 birthday of the system, the network security company F Research Director Mik Hibbony (Mikko Hypponen) has issued such a request: "Please, today will win XP uninstall it." "The worst security Siegel in the F blog in Wednesday:" Take into account the current most mainstream PC operating systems, including Win XP/VISTA/7, Linux and Mac OS X,win XP, which are the least secure so far.　　"It is not surprising that Win XP's 10-year popularity in the market is a monumental achievement and its security architecture is not up to date," Siegel said. However, the market share of Win XP is still high, Siegel said: "The attackers will not waste time and money on other target operating systems, it would be a foolish choice." Attackers have never had a better feeling now, and the easiest targets are often the most common. "The hope is that the win 7 market share will soon overtake win XP, by which time malware creators will surely look for other platforms to launch attacks," he said. But he also said: "The current form will not change quickly." "(Xiao Ming)