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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
If I were the OP I wouldn't rush to upset a well running PC. XP support may be disappearing soon but that does not make the OS suddenly obsolete or more vulnerable than now. IMO hackers will be attacking current Windows platforms rather than legacy systems.
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Problem with that line of thinking is that XP is still used on over 20% of PCs. It is also no where near as secure by default as Vista, 7, 8, Linux or OSX. So, it is very likely to continue to be ripped apart by hackers who will now be safe in the knowledge that MS will have abandoned it.
You will also have to consider that with vendor support ending, 3rd parties are also likely to stop updating their software on XP. I don't know what the support policies of Flash or Java are, but they're the biggest source of exploits at the moment, and if they stop providing XP compatible versions then you'd be stuck with even more old software that will have known security holes.
Having said all that, simply not running as an administrator account will prevent almost all hacks from being exploited.