From: address@is.invalid   
      
   John,   
      
   >> I hate to say it, but in today's world, XP connected to the internet   
   >> *is* an infectious disease.   
   >   
   > Steady, now. This *is* an XP NG!   
      
   Meh, don't worry about it.   
      
   I've been reading that kind of FUD forever, always about the previous   
   Windows version whenever a new one came out, but have never heard about a   
   single outbreak that was tracked back to XP itself mucking up - any more   
   than Win7, Win8, Win10 or Win11 did/do that.   
      
   I've been using XP for at least the last 15 years, and have never   
   experienced it to be(coming) any kind of "an infectious disease".   And that   
   without it running any kind of AV product ever (other than the one I've got   
   loaded into my wet-ware :-) ).   
      
   And oh yeah, for over a decade I oversaw a room full of XP machines, used by   
   kids.  Never have seen them get ill or infectious by themselves either.   
      
      
   The funny thing is that most people looking down on older Windows versions   
   seem to have zero problem with their machines being on a continuous, weekly   
   drip of regular and security updates.  Personally, if I would know a human   
   who would need that kind of TLC I would consider them to be quite ill ...   
   :-)   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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