>
> >>
> Guess my wife is going to have to bite the bullet and let me upgrade her
> Win
> Me machine to XP. That gal is a FIRM believer in "If it ain't broke, don't
> fix it!" ;)
>>
Now if you want her off of 98 for other reasons, you can use this as an
excuse as to why she needs to give up win98 and move to xp... she'll be none
the wiser. <g> Anyone who is using Win98 after July 1 shouldn't feel as if
they are suddenly less secure because it's out of support and they should
only upgrade if they can justify it for other reasons.
How many critical security updates were released for Win98 in the past year?
(I have no idea since i haven't used it in years.) How many were really
critical and had great potential to affect her? (For winxp, maybe a handful,
if that, had the potential to harm the most careful user.) Or is there only
a problem if she did A while visiting site B with the firewall off and no
AV?
I'm on your wife's side here... unless she is a careless, clueless
Internet browser i wouldn't care one bit whether or not win98 was still
"supported" - she's low risk and not worth upgrading for security reasons.
You can sufficiently protect her using other methods. Now if the AV vendors
drop win98 it's a whole new ballgame.
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