Windows XP security bug – A serious risk to those who still uses it

Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows XP on April 8 this year. Predictably, it took very little time to allow hackers to locate the first serious vulnerability that puts risk millions of users.

Serious Security Bug Windows XP, Microsoft indeed serious because, as noted, has decided to no longer release updates to the operating system by far the most popular of all time in Redmond.

The appearance of the new vulnerability has been confirmed by Microsoft and detailed in a technical note. Its scope is enormous both for the number of machines to be attacked because it allows you to execute code remotely and technically also take control of a machine.

The problem specifically affects Explorer from version 6 to 11 and can be completed by an attacker who manages to convince someone to open a link via email or instant message.

Microsoft will release an update for versions of Explorer running on Vista, Windows 7 and 8, but it seems unlikely the release for older versions of Explorer running on Windows XP that was released April 8, known as the support cycle of Microsoft.

Users of Internet Explorer 10 and 11 (which only run on newer versions of Windows) can protect against this vulnerability by activating the Advanced Security Mode of the browser, but the advice for those who can do it, is to move to a more up to date.

Stono have already been found with traces of attacks Explorer going from version 9 to 11 using a weakness of Flash to access the user’s computer memory attached. To limit the damage on older cars if you cannot help but try to use XP an alternative browser and disable Flash in any case.