It was only a year or so ago that I was reading about some of the big Fortune 500 who have stayed with 98 writing new code to keep there internal systems going. I do not know if that is practical but with all the holes created by MS allowing for exploitation I am very hesitate to go to another operating system. I do not know MS products well enough to know what in the past is secure or if I need to go to Umbatue Lenex based system.

My 1.9 gh system works fine for what I want it to do, in fact most of what I do could be done on 98 with exception of internet. I am not interested in a toy to play with I am interested in using and processing data for many of the various projects I have interest in. A lot of the older equipment is robust and able to take a beating. It can cheaply ] cost effectively } up graded when I need to do so. The newer equipment is a lot more prone to catastrophic failure and to compromise by who ever has the mind to.

I think there will be some second party effort to keep XP up due to how many people. offices, hospitals. etc etc etc still are sing it. Vista locked people out of there XP comparable data bases considering it a security threat. I had a single net book with Windoes 7 on it and I could see nothing but cosmetic differences between that and XP, but I have been informed that this new tech operating system works very differently inside of its structure.

I do firmly believe in intellectual property rights, But for these big people it does not come down to our level only what they can tie up in there web. So Does any one have any Ideas. This is what I am doing at this time.

1] Create a separate isolated Establishing my own data base of the commonly used information I need to use from legally sourced sites.

2] Limit my internet browsing to a supported Op sys that I can keep secure as possible [ S A P ]. All data to be kept needs to be sieved as best as I can for computer pathogens before storing them.

3] Any down loading I am doing is going to a jump drive or an SD chip separate from my main computer memory.

4] I never have and will never store personal information or pass words on my system.

Any thing else I would love to hear.

Huggles

Michele

From what I'm reading, the real flaw isn't in IE - it's in Adobe Flash Player.

The Washington Post article (which, it turns out, isn't readable unless you allow the entire web site to have active scripting support) points out that 1) You have to use Flash, or 2) have someone click on a link, so they can hit a specially crafted script.

That's no different than everything _else_ that my customers have been infecting themselves with.

So, if you're running XP, switch to another browser (why haven't you anyway? Microsoft basically abandoned XP for browsers two years before officially abandoning it), and pay attention to what you do online.