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Hello, Kurt. Friday November 26 2010 at 19:20, you wrote to All: KW> So what do you folks running Windows95 today do regarding Y2K and KW> patches? I'd love to throw one of my Windows95 installs into a VM, but KW> I'n worried about running a 15 year-old OS on an internet with 0 day KW> exploits. I'd gather doing such a thing wouldn't be a very smart idea, would it? As for these so-called "zero day exploits", I've never been personally or professionally affected by them since I apply common sense to security, especially on an inherently insecure platform as Windows. But running what is basically an ancient piece of software that's unprepared for today's problems would just be asking for Pandora's box to be opened for you. Later, Sean ... Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. --- GoldED/2 3.0.1* Origin: Paragon BBS - 423.926.7999 - paragon.darktech.org (1:18/200) SEEN-BY: 3/0 633/267 640/954 712/0 313 550 620 848 @PATH: 18/200 261/38 712/848 633/267 |
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