Government computers running Windows XP will be vulnerable after April 8

Re:Government computers running Windows XP will be vulnerabl... by tanzam75 on Monday March 17, 2014 @01:31AM (#7413275)

You can't make blanket statements like that. It depends on where the vulnerability is.

For example, Vista has a substantially-rewritten networking stack. A networking exploit in Vista would not necessarily translate over to XP.

On the other hand, there's a lot of legacy code around in GDI+ for decoding graphics formats. A file format exploit would be highly likely to carry over to XP.

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Re:Government computers running Windows XP will be vulnerabl... by korethr on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:03AM (#7413562)

Fair enough. I misunderstood the parent when posting that. Re-reading it and your comment, it makes more sense.

That makes me curious as to just how much legacy code still exists in Vista/7/8/8.1, and where. I guess it's time for me to do some more research.

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