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re: safe to use on Internet
Friday, February 1, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(946 messages posted)
My Win2K partition has gotten infections but not my Win98 one. Maybe malware is
not aimed at it anymore. Maybe the viruses are trying to find the Administrator
user so they can upgrade the permissions on a Guest user and they are totally confused
when they can't find either in Win98.
Seriously, I've had very little get in since I started depending on Firefox. There
are other apps that can call out and on rare occasions I use IE so I can't say that
anything got past it.
My firewall is Outpost 1.0. It's good enough. It has a local DNS lookup feature
that must be turned off and deleted. That, combined with IE, got me hijacked and
infected.
I use AVG antivirus. It's been OK so far but one root kit got past it. A trial
version of Spyware Doctor found that.
Gewg has suggested, wait 24 hours after downloading before you open an executable.
That will give the antivirus manufacturers to catch up with the latest malware.
Then scan it again before opening.
- Written in response to:
- re: safe to use on Internet (Mark: Friday, February 1, 2008 at 3:23 pm)
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