In a message on Wednesday 07-04-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GE Ed,

 EV>  but being offered by Microsoft would seem to be something safe.....

Who said somethig from M$ would be safe??
Look at their record of programs having barn doors open for virii etc.

 HG> Yes, and noting the experiences of the first users sold me on Win10.

 HG> Who is 'Wcry'?

EV> WannaCry, WannaCrypt and various other abbreviations for last months
EV> Malware.
EV> This month the most recent Malware I've read of is called Petya.

Dunno where you find all those malwares. I've seen nothing of them!

Maybe AVG and ZoneAlarm has taken care of them in the Win 10 machines,
and OS/2 is by design immune.

EV> I have really been fumbling with this XP computer.

It's your choice.

EV> When the Wizard gave up trying to find what it thought it needed it
EV> showed a window that said "Cannot Install this Hardware" and had a
EV> Check Box at the bottom of the window saying "Don't prompt me again
EV> to install this software." to tell IT not to bother Me again asking
EV> to Install a Printer that I don't have.

Hi, hi.....

EV> The above is one of the fumbling arounds I've done trying to tame
EV> the XP beast.

EV> I won't bore You with the other Fumbles and Foul Ups happening here
EV> in the past several weeks.

I've still got XPpro on one of the laptops, and it behaves quite normal
whenever I start it up.


GN es 73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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