[NLRS] Still running XP AND You had an auto update?

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Microsoft issues emergency update for IE browsers over hacking scheme
By Reuters MediaTodayat 1:55 p.m.
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BOSTON - Microsoft is helping the estimated 
hundreds of millions of customers still running Windows XP, which it 
stopped supporting earlier this month, by providing an emergency update 
to fix a critical bug in its Internet Explorer browser.
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Microsoft Corp rushed to create the fix after learning of the bug in 
the operating system over the weekend when cybersecurity 
firm FireEye Inc warned that a sophisticated group of hackers had 
exploited the bug to launch attacks in a campaign dubbed "Operation 
Clandestine Fox.
It was the first high-profile threat to emerge 
after Microsoft stopped providing support to its 13-year-old XP 
operating software on April 8.
Microsoft on Wednesday initially 
said it would not provide the remedy to Windows XP users because it had 
stopped supporting the product. But on Thursday, as Microsoft started 
releasing the fix for the bug through its automated Windows Update 
system, a company spokeswoman said the remedy also would be pushed out 
to XP customers.
"We decided to fix it, fix it fast, and fix it 
for all our customers," spokeswoman Adrienne Hall said on Microsoft's 
official blog.
She said there had not been many attacks exploiting the vulnerability, which Microsoft decided to patch in XP "based on the proximity" to its recent end of support.
"There have been a very 
small number of attacks based on this particular vulnerability and 
concerns were, frankly, overblown," she said in the blog.
At the 
end of last week, FireEye initially uncovered attacks involving recent 
versions of Windows that are still supported by Microsoft.
Then, 
three days ago, it began identifying attacks on Windows XP, which users 
would not necessarily have been able to thwart if Microsoft had not 
decided to roll out the update to XP users in addition to other 
customers.
FireEye said in a blog published on Thursday that it 
had observed new groups of hackers exploiting the vulnerability to 
attack targets in government and energy sectors, in addition to 
previously identified financial and defense industries.
Microsoft 
was under pressure to move quickly as the U.S., UK and German 
governments advised computer users on Monday to consider using 
alternatives to Microsoft's Explorer browser until it released a fix.
Microsoft first had warned that it was planning to end support for Windows XP in 
2007, but security firms estimated that 15 to 25 percent of the world's 
personal computers still run on the version of the operating system that was released in October 2001.