Windows use in medical spaces (Re: vintage computers in active use)

[Dave Wade]

> Please can we have some specific instances of  Windows causing problems.
> Not unqualified people at home or students but real production
environments
> with qualified support on hand.
> I used every version of windows from 1 to 10.  yes XP and millennium too
> 

It is susceptible to MalWare of all types. We had some XP embedded thin
clients that got attacked by Confiker but of course they were clean after a
re-boot

but the main reason Linux and Apple isn't attacked is because there are many
more window systems, although I read somewhere Apple devices were being
targeted because Apple users had more cash..
I see Apple has been hit by Ransom Ware...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-targeted-by-kerange
r-ransom-malware-for-first-time

I can't see why Crypto Locker could work on ANY Linux or BSD box....

> I wrote time and mission critical food distribution related software for
the ten
> years before I retired in vb and then vb.net (oo)  I would have seen just
about
> every possible bug in windows and in developing applications under it.
> 
> Lets hear what others experienced.

Sorry I know I have already said but generally very reliable. Some issues
where call centre staff on XP were allowed to surf the web as
administrators...
... conficker was a real problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker


 
> 
> Rod
> 
> 
Dave
G4UGM