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Discussion in 'Just Talk' started by tom.plum, Mar 31, 2014.

  1. tom.plum

    tom.plum Screwfix Select

    is this a threat or scaremongery? :confused:

     
  2. Both.

    But the good news is that it ain't our problem - if someone manages to carry out fraud by infiltrating XP, it'll be up to the bank to compensate you.

    Peasy.

    (Anyways, these machines run on XP?! That's just weird - what would a basic one-task machine need a full OS like XP?)
     
  3. FatHands

    FatHands Well-Known Member

    yep lots of stuff running on XP. I was at a Tesco supermarket the other day and one of the self-serve check-outs blasted the log off music in the middle of someone using it!
     
  4. Sean_ork

    Sean_ork Screwfix Select

    it's not the full OS

    think of it as more the Escort 939cc Crossflow version rather than the 1701cc Cosworth version
     
  5. tom.plum

    tom.plum Screwfix Select

    still scarey thou, If they are clever enough to get a pin number from the machine, then they can take out money from any cash machine and the account holder will have to prove it was't him/her, So a perpetrator could target a victim and take money from the victims home town machine and would be hard to prove he's not took the cash him/herself,
     
  6. FatHands

    FatHands Well-Known Member

    bad news isn't it!
     
  7. joinerjohn1

    joinerjohn1 Screwfix Select

    At our local hospital, most of their computer system is running networked XP Pro machines. Makes you wonder how many machines running XP the NHS has up and down the country. ;););)
     
  8. Cheburashka

    Cheburashka Active Member

    I was in an airport in January and one of the flight info screens restarted with the windows XP start screen.
     
  9. Mr. Handyandy

    Mr. Handyandy Screwfix Select


    Malaysian airport? :(
     
  10. Mr. Handyandy

    Mr. Handyandy Screwfix Select


    Actually, that is probably windows 95
     
  11. Mr. Handyandy

    Mr. Handyandy Screwfix Select

    And I'm being sarcastic, not making fun!
     
  12. joinerjohn1

    joinerjohn1 Screwfix Select

    More than likely Windows 3.1 :p:p:p:p
     
  13. Lectrician

    Lectrician Screwfix Select

    Most POS terminals in pubs, restaurants and shops run on XP or embedded XP. Newer ones are windows 7.

    Worked in a pub the other day, and theirs were running windows 98!

    Most POS systems are deliberately either on a standalone network with no Internet access, or are fire walled from the Internet completely. Windows update is turned off on them, so essentially have been unsupported for years!
     
  14. joinerjohn1

    joinerjohn1 Screwfix Select

    I know the NHS system is networked. My own doc can log on to the hospital system from his consulting room. Dunno what level of access a GP would have to it though? (probably nothing like the access consultants have)
     
  15. Lectrician

    Lectrician Screwfix Select

    The NHS system is not fully networked across sites, and every region is responsible for their own infrastructure. There was a failed attempt to network the whole of the NHS which failed, and cost millions.
     
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  16. FatHands

    FatHands Well-Known Member

    This makes sense; my nan needed a GP whilst staying with relatives in London (we are in Wales) and they said the different trusts have no communication methods between them. They had to fax all the medical notes over. Talk about 1980's!
     
  17. As Lec says, it cost millions, and the IT consultants have yet - to my knowledge - to be kicked in the tentacles.

    Outrageous fraud and waste going on in the NHS. If your home pooter needed setting up to a network and you had to call someone in to do this, you wouldn't pay them unless they delivered. Not quite the same in the big world, seemingly.
     

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