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Originally Posted by Blossom
I think some people are just prone to make mistakes on security issues. He's been pretty good as long as I have the protection in place he hasn't caught anything in years.
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As long as you
have the protection in place.
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Can I just say how much I hate windows updates on XP. I've been downloading IE8 for hours now. Windows updates won't run without it. It just loops. This sucks.
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What updates? XP has been out of support for years, and XP itself no longer gets patches, and hasn't for some time. I have MS Office 2007 under XP, and it still sees the odd patch.
The last major XP revision was Service Pack 3, and there were a handful of patches after that. If you have XP SP3, you are about as well protected as can be. Run a decent firewall, use something like Qupzilla as the browser, and run as a Limited user, and you ought to be safe enough.
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Dennis