TR Forums

Since everyone is going crazy about WannaCry I'm curious since I've never tried it. Can Windows XP Embedded machines even take patches? I always thought they were self contained systems that don't allow for data to be written to the OS?

Why would you want to "try" it? And (that question aside) why do you think you need Windows XP to do so? Most of the infected systems were supposedly Windows 7 and later. Just do a fresh install into a VM or something.

Microsoft embedded operating system do receive patches. They can use Windows/Microsoft Update.

Depending on the nature of the embedded system it might be offline its entire life and in premise not need patches.

That being said everything has bugs and the embedded system might be online. You'd want an offline system to be capable of accepting updates to fix serious bugs impacting the embedded product. If the system is online you want the ability to apply security updates.

just brew it! wrote:

Why would you want to "try" it? And (that question aside) why do you think you need Windows XP to do so? Most of the infected systems were supposedly Windows 7 and later. Just do a fresh install into a VM or something.

Sadly it's a prototype/very rare but very effective networked robotic CD/DVD burner that pumps out a huge volume in a very small amount of time .