XP EOL? Nah! Who cares!

luisfernandoglvez · 2018-10-04T07:08:52.000Z

Saw this one in an ATM where I live. First time I was passing by saw the ATM’s XP boot screen and after some minutes found this

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steve-flanigan · 2018-10-04T07:15:00.000Z

Where were you? The text on the upper part of the screen looks Russian.

dataless · 2018-10-04T08:09:24.000Z

I guess it could be worse, it could still be running OS/2 Warp.

A lot of ATM’s ran it forever.

luisfernandoglvez · 2018-10-04T08:11:42.000Z

SteveFL:

Where were you? The text on the upper part of the screen looks Russian.

Yes, it’s russian, it was in Moscow. Good eye!!

mariuseriksen6419 · 2018-10-04T08:18:50.000Z

My card got eaten by one with OS/2 Warp in Madrid in 2014.

Top tip: Hold down the yellow button for some seconds (3-5?) and the ATM will restart

luisfernandoglvez · 2018-10-04T08:25:30.000Z

Pineshed:

My card got eaten by one with OS/2 Warp in Madrid in 2014.

Top tip: Hold down the yellow button for some seconds (3-5?) and the ATM will restart

Nice to know! Will try it

l0st0ne · 2018-10-04T10:21:48.000Z

I have stated this many times, we still run a couple dozen Win98SE computers and a S*$T ton of Windows XP computers where I work. EOL, not where I work.

biscuitking · 2018-10-04T10:56:50.000Z

SteveFL:

Where were you? The text on the upper part of the screen looks Russian.

That was the first thing I noticed as well.

mariuseriksen6419 · 2018-10-04T12:15:44.000Z

It kind of looks like greek to me, not russian (cyrillic)

luisfernandoglvez · 2018-10-04T12:27:13.000Z

Dataless:

I guess it could be worse, it could still be running OS/2 Warp.

A lot of ATM’s ran it forever.

I saw the XP boot screen, but it’s worrying to know that many ATMs are running on these super old OSes

luisfernandoglvez · 2018-10-04T12:28:02.000Z

Pineshed:

It kind of looks like greek to me, not russian (cyrillic)

It is Russian

johnpanzenhagen · 2018-10-04T13:03:57.000Z

fergal9:

Yes, it’s russian, it was in Moscow. Good eye!!

For a minute I thought it might be a failed hacking attempt.

georgemcfarlin · 2018-10-04T15:56:50.000Z

Got a ticket yesterday for a couple web sites not opening. I do not think they were compatible with internet explorer 8 that the windows xp machine was running.

Jrx1216 · 2018-10-04T16:33:25.000Z

Dataless:

I guess it could be worse, it could still be running OS/2 Warp.

A lot of ATM’s ran it forever.

Many STILL run OS/2 or a derivation of it. It does exactly what it needs to, and gets out of the way. Why update to a modern OS that’s constantly bombarded by new threats when you can use a system that had many of it’s bugs worked out by now? It’s also unlikely that people that aren’t targeting them specifically will write malware for such an OS, and if they’re being targeted specifically, they’re likely going to have issues either way.

There are also still many application specific machines that run old OSs for reasons like that. I recently heard about a company that Just finished replacing their commodore systems with Raspberry Pi’s running a custom commodore emulator that accessed the GPIO to work with their legacy systems.

dataless · 2018-10-04T17:43:39.000Z

Jrx1216:

Dataless:

I guess it could be worse, it could still be running OS/2 Warp.

A lot of ATM’s ran it forever.

Many STILL run OS/2 or a derivation of it. It does exactly what it needs to, and gets out of the way. Why update to a modern OS that’s constantly bombarded by new threats when you can use a system that had many of it’s bugs worked out by now? It’s also unlikely that people that aren’t targeting them specifically will write malware for such an OS, and if they’re being targeted specifically, they’re likely going to have issues either way.

There are also still many application specific machines that run old OSs for reasons like that. I recently heard about a company that Just finished replacing their commodore systems with Raspberry Pi’s running a custom commodore emulator that accessed the GPIO to work with their legacy systems.

Good point.

I’m betting nobody has written a virus for OS/2 in 20+ years, and there wasn’t many back then either.

I saw a crashed menu display at Taco Bell a few years back, watched the BIOS screen come up, saw “Starting MS-DOS 6.22” and scandisk ran before it crashed and rebooted.

I guess if it works, don’t fix it. (Well, in the case of the menu system it wasn’t working at that moment)

brodyweber · 2018-10-04T18:25:02.000Z

Curious, is it standard for error text to be in english in Russia? “ATM IS TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE” or is that just from the american software developers?

luisfernandoglvez · 2018-10-05T04:15:56.000Z

Bweber93:

Curious, is it standard for error text to be in english in Russia? “ATM IS TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE” or is that just from the american software developers?

Their ATMs now have the menus displayed in a few languages (I think they did that because of the World Cup) because a few years ago (4-5) everything was only in russian (including ATM’s menus)

brodyweber · 2018-10-05T16:56:57.000Z

fergal9:

Bweber93:

Curious, is it standard for error text to be in english in Russia? “ATM IS TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE” or is that just from the american software developers?

Their ATMs now have the menus displayed in a few languages (I think they did that because of the World Cup) because a few years ago (4-5) everything was only in russian (including ATM’s menus)

interesting. Good to know.