I'll put in a word here for having a good, strong HOSTS file. That'll
help keep you away from most SPAM, Malware & phishing sites to begin with.
On 4/7/2014 8:45 PM, Gerrit Visser wrote:
All excellent advice except that today's threats are mostly coming via
phishing. If you watch what you download/install and sites that you visit
you will be better off.
OTOH, with XP not getting more updates it will become a target again. 400
million potential victims is hard to pass up.
Gerrit
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Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support
will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at
the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B
S. Given one has one's own virus protection and spam-blocker, that is.
Anyone else have more educated opinions than mine? I SO don't want to
give up XP...
Keep an updated anti-virus and software firewall (ZoneAlarm, for
example) and make sure you're connected through a *hardware* firewall for
your personal broadband connection. A cheap router (even if you are only
connecting a single computer) will do the trick.
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