[LINK] Re: Windows XP versus Vista

[Kim Holburn]

Word is that the old viruses, worms and trojans are not so in at the  
moment.  The new black is injection of trojans from either malicious  
or compromised web-sites.



On 2008/Jan/27, at 9:15 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> Matthew writes:
>
>> I have a substantial number of machines at home, and the funny thing
>> is only 2 of my machines have more room than the 40G required for  
>> Vista
>
> Ditto.  Indeed, this sweet 486 Win98 machine has no firewall or  
> antivirus
> at all. And I fired up its modem and browser (Netscape 4.5 internal  
> start
> page) two hours ago:
>
>> Connected at 50,000 bps
>> Duration 02:14.30
>> Butes received: 3,104 bytes
>> Bytes sent: 1,540 bytes
>
> Two hours? Win98? No Proxy or Firewall? No Antivirus? ... 1,540 Bytes!
>
> Two online-virus-checkers complain it's old, but assert that it's  
> clean.
>
> Where are all the malicious Zombies one gets instantly one goes  
> online?
>
> Ahh .. after 10 years of use, I demand a share of bottom-feeding code!
>
> Mind, I wouldn't/couldn't bank etc with it, however, the point  
> remains.
>
> Anyone claim as little net-upload/time? Wonder what Vista finds  
> necessary.
>
> Cheers, people
> Stephen Loosley
> Victoria, Australia
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