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Originally Posted by svandamme
Security is always a trade off between security, cost, function and practicality.
So if you run old crap on your production pc's, and the OS is unsupported , no longer being updated for known vulnerabilities, then really you are to blame if you get infected.
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We have a couple of old Win XP computers here. One only runs a photogrammetric scanner that we paid close to 70 grand for 15 years ago. It works fine and a replacement is insane money and film is going away anyway. It will never be replaced. We run a commercial anti-virus program on every computer in the office and they are all updated as soon as possible.
We have two Win 2000 computers. One is dedicated to run an old SCSI RAID. We have not had any issues with viruses mostly because the employees are all smart enough to never open a suspicious email.