Hi :) I don't have any Win98 machines to worry about luckily but i know a couple of people that keep installing it for their clients.
I tend to find lighter-weight Gnu&Linux distros are more up-to-date with drivers and stuff. Wine makes it possible to run most apps designed for Windows although it can take a bit of work sometimes. Luckily i am mostly able to avoid such old machines. The info is good to know tho so thanks for that :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 5/11/11, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS font exploit > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Saturday, 5 November, 2011, 21:30 > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 20:19, Tom > <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi :) > > That seems to list all the supported versions/distros > of Windows but doesn't > > included unsupported ones such as Win98. Does that > mean Win98 is safe or > > just that they don't bother to look to see if it's > vulnerable? > > > > Windows 98 is vulnerable. > > Windows 98 is not supported by MS any longer, and there are > literally > thousands of unpatched known exploits for that OS. Windows > 98 should > only be used in non-networked single-purpose applications > now, and > furthermore an exit plan should be devised for all systems > still > running 98. > > If you are still using Windows 98 then this new > vulnerability is the > least of your security concerns. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived > and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
