I'm not surprised. There's a huge installed base of XP systems where you wouldn't expect to find Windows - cash registers, ticket scanners, standalone ATMs (usually not the ones the banks own, though), and so on. And some places where you'd expect the upgrade to have taken place years ago; it only takes one piece of mission-critical no-longer-supported software that doesn't run in Windows 7 to justify keeping XP on the floor.
Oh, and http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/globa ... -1.4115065]here's an article about the spread of the current ransomware
EDIT: And backup your system. If you don't have any better way to do it, buy an external USB hard drive that's larger than the drive in your PC, and run SyncToy overnight to copy everything from your hard drive to the external drive. (Suggestions for better ways to do it are welcome - I know the state-of-the-art for enterprise-level backups, not the state-of-the-art for a home setup. Folks here probably can't afford enterprise-level backup software.)
RE-EDIT: And unplug the external USB hard drive when the backup is complete, so that it doesn't get encrypted if/when the PC's hard drive gets encrypted.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Oh, and http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/globa ... -1.4115065]here's an article about the spread of the current ransomware
EDIT: And backup your system. If you don't have any better way to do it, buy an external USB hard drive that's larger than the drive in your PC, and run SyncToy overnight to copy everything from your hard drive to the external drive. (Suggestions for better ways to do it are welcome - I know the state-of-the-art for enterprise-level backups, not the state-of-the-art for a home setup. Folks here probably can't afford enterprise-level backup software.)
RE-EDIT: And unplug the external USB hard drive when the backup is complete, so that it doesn't get encrypted if/when the PC's hard drive gets encrypted.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012