no, microsoft is *not* repsonsible for fools which connect a 15 years
old, long unsupported OS version to a network. responsible are the
people who are running that machines from hell and vendors which provide
updates for software running on them which appears for users that there
is some support - just build the binaries with a compiler so that they
don't run on WinXP "by accident" and the problem goes away sooner or
later when the machines are no longer working at all
Am 18.04.2017 um 16:39 schrieb David Erickson via bind-users:
One could argue the problem is Microsoft in general. Problem is people don't
take security seriously cause they don't think they could ever get compromised
or hacked. And then most of the ones who have already been compromised just
ignore the symptoms thinking their old end of life system is just slow :) But
the Microsoft platform in general is the problem not just one single end of
life platform :) Unfortunately we definitely can't drop support for all of
Microsoft lol
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of G.W.
Haywood
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 10:28 AM
To: bind-users@lists.isc.org
Subject: [E] Re: BIND 9 windows XP builds
Hi there,
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Evan Hunt wrote:
... I wanted to find out whether there's a reason for so many people
to still be doing this -- even if it wasn't a very good reason --
before I cut them off.
Personally I'm more than a bit surprised, and even a little offended that ISC
still provides an XP build. Running an XP machine connected to the Internet is
like driving around town in an uninsured vehicle with no roadworthiness
certificate. It's irresponsible. Those of us who manage mailservers and who
take any kind of interest in the threat landscape will attest to the number of
XP botnets still plying their obnoxious trade, especially (sorted by greatest
volume in my mailserver logs first) from China, Vietnam, India and the USA.
Cut them off. If, by being one more provider which drops support for a
sociopathic menace, you tend to reduce the threat from it, then you will at
least have the warm appreciation of hard-pressed and generally ill-appreciated
mail administrators the world over.
If you don't already run 'p0f', then you might want to consider it to give you
an idea of what's connecting to your servers. I'd guess it will be more
informative than any feedback you get from real users.
It wouldn't surprise me if most of the downloaders of XP builds that you're
seeing are themselves bots.
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