Are you still using Windows XP? In its latest Threat Report, security vendor F-Secure warns that a powerful zero-day attack against Windows XP is a matter of when—not if—and provides some guidance for those stalwart (or foolhardy) PC warriors who plan to ignore the April 8 “XPocalypse” when Microsoft support for the OS officially expires.

To be fair, F-Secure does not take a “sky is falling” approach to the end of Windows XP support, but advises that “folks that continue to use XP at home can do so with some reasonable amount of safety, for a while still, but they absolutely need to review their Internet (particularly Web browsing) and computing habits.”

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