On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:43:16 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


"martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:33:59 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
notfranz.
writes

In view of the fact that there is a virus doing the rounds, (it tries
to
attack me on average 1.5 times daily) which purports to come from
Microsoft
and which includes an attachment which is said to cure something or
other,
I will not avail myself of this advice, however good it might be,
until I
hear from others who are brave enough to follow it.

There's a difference between downloading an official patch from
Microsoft, and executing an email attachment merely claiming to be a
patch (and in being in reality malware).

The vulnerability and patch don't apply to Windows 98 and some other
old
versions of Windows.

Ah, well, I am running Windows 98 and have no intention of upgrading.
Do you really mean that later versions have newly introduced
vulnerabilities
which did not exist on the older versions?

Yes.

Win 98 is not supported from 1-1-2004.

I have never needed any support from Microsoft since I bought my Windows 98.
When your doomsday arrives, if I still have enough marbles left to do it, I
will migrate from Windows to Linux.

It's not that difficult to install SuSe Linux, the problems come if
you want to run Linux and WinXP on the same PC, when WinXp is already
installed.
Both Linux and XP are very stable OS, I found that programs that are
stable on WinXP were sometimes not so stable on Linux. We have had no
crashes on either of the Dell WinXP PCs that we have owned for about
12 months now. One of them is used by my son for games and Autocad.
I have tried both SuSe Linux and WinXP over the last year and decided
to stick with Win XP, since I haven't found any advantages in
switching to Linux and several of the programs, excluding MS products,
that I use are only available for windows machines.
--
Martin