XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:06:07 -0200, Shadow  wrote:   
      
   >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....   
      
   When my old desktop computer died I had to buy a new one, but I bought   
   it without an OS installed, and just restored the Acronis backups from   
   the old one, which had Windows XP. That saved me an enormous amount of   
   setup time -- finding all the discs with the original programs could   
   take a long time for a start. Yes, I should ber better organised, and   
   have them all neatly stored in one place, but I'm not and I don't. So   
   I still use XP.   
      
   I still use Pegassus Mail for e-mail, which I've set to text-only,   
   which cuts the risk of infection a great deal, to judge by the amount   
   of malware that doesn't make it to my inbox, and even when it does,   
   gets deleted unread.   
      
   I use NoScript as well -- apart from anything else, it saves bandwidth   
   -- many news sites have videos that play automatically and can consume   
   enormous quantities of data while you're not looking and just reading   
   the story.   
      
   So in the 12 or more years that I've been using XP I haven't had a   
   virus infection yet, despite the fact that I get about 10 malware   
   e-mails a day.   
      
      
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   Steve Hayes   
   http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   http://khanya.wordpress.com   
      
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