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re: safe to use on Internet[?]
Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jude Nihal Fernando
(99 messages posted)
I ran a Virtual PC running Windows 98 and found that most of the spyware did not
get into the system, like it did on a Windows XP Home Edition SP0 Virtual Box, Why?
Because The Most Viruses nowadays support the newer NT Kernel which people want to
hack more at and the only way around it is to secure the box by updating it to the
latest service patch and the Windows Updates and Patches. Yeah, maybe the Windows
98 Operating system can get affected by viruses, like what happened in the "I Love
You" message, but I haven't encountered any yet, but when I said that most viruses
aren't supported in 98, i mean't that the viruses are not written entirely for that
operating system, it may affect the system though. Yes the old bugs that were written
for Windows 98 can get into the system, but they aren't as many as the bugs which
can get into Windows XP (unpatched).
By the way, give me links to web sites that will effect a Windows 98 based system.
I never seen my 98 Virtual PC getting effected by bugs, like I seen my XP Home VPC.
I was not trying to be rude, I was just expressing my experience with all of this.
On Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 7:22 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|Windows 98 is safer than Windows XP with No Service Pack[...]
>|because most spyware and malware
>| Jude Nihal Fernando
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>You left out the word "new" after "most".
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>There are plenty of OLD infections that affect W98.
>If one of the kids disables the anti-virus (simple on a machine with no user levels),
>that machine will certainly get infected through the kids using it
>and will stay that way until someone makes the effort to de-crap the box.
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>It seems irresponsible to deploy an OS install which will allow that.
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>|don't really support that operating system [any more].
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>Interesting use of the word "support".
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>|Firefox is safe to use on any operating system
>|and Windows 98 can run Mozilla Firefox.
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>ISTM the OP came here seeking validation and isn't hearing anything else.
>My sense of it so far is that he will merely do a default install
>leaving Internet Exploder as the browser.
>cache of http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/129/
>++Browser.Helper.Object++ActiveX-can still-destroy-your-system
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