XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: Sh@dow.br   
      
   On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 18:51:11 -0000, "NY"  wrote:   
      
   >I realise that XP didn't suddenly become any less secure the day after MS   
   >withdrew support, but since that date presumably various backdoors have been   
   >found which make XP less secure than it used to be.   
      
   	Think about it. If it had that many backdoors, there would be   
   a massive botnet established on the 10-15% of computers that still run   
   XP. And yet ....   
   	Firewall + uninstall Flash and Java + install NoScript on your   
   Firefox (or Palemoon 2.65) browser.   
   	Xpy is useful for closing a lot of useless and dangerous   
   "features".   
   	Do a Malware scan from a LiveCD AV (Kaspersky Rescue Disk is   
   good) once a week.   
   	Keep any software you download for a week, then upload it to   
   Jotti or Virustotal before installing. You will avoid the zero-days.   
   	I just removed 240 "malwares" from a friend's Win 7 computer   
   (most were duplicates in the restore folder, but it's still a lot)   
   ---> Brains. The most important, but something you can't install on a   
   customer's PC....   
   	I personally wouldn't recommend XP to an inexperienced user,   
   because when they do get infected (they will), they'll blame you and   
   XP. It's human nature.   
   	[]'s   
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