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Offline Noster

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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #14 from previous page: July 02, 2005, 02:20:13 PM »
Hi,

> Go for Win2000 instead if you can't get more ram - W2k isn't quite as resource hungry as XP.

Why should he, what are his benefits from changing to W2k or XP?

He might not get any memory because the old machine might not work with more than 256 MB.

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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2005, 02:45:54 PM »
From my personal experience, Win 2000 is much more stable than 98. And in my case, it means that NT/XP systems (which I don't use at home) are less alien to me when I have to use them.

edit: I run Win2000 with no probs on a PII 400 laptop, 128MB RAM, btw
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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2005, 04:01:46 PM »
guys,
he was asking for free or cheap xp costs 100 bucks. i use win98 and have zone alrm firewall (free) adaware (free) and fprot dos (also free)
my computer runs great
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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2005, 04:43:53 PM »
install debian / linux on a seperate partition. no security risks at all, completely free, and quite adequate for surfing with the firefox browser (all major plugins supported).
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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2005, 08:24:44 PM »
Linux... ;)
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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2005, 08:47:31 PM »
I'd reccomend Kerio Personal Firewall ver 2.1.5 (free)
Its small and efficient.
Also Kaspersky antivirus is very good, once you disable his services (startup) and manually test every new '.exe' downloaded from net.
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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2005, 10:47:09 PM »
Quote

whabang wrote:
Time to write a virus for AROS, then! :evilgrin:

Somebody has to be the first, you could be the first.
Since Saddam is already done with, maybe Dubya will invade our  bootblocks or maybe Mugabe will throw away all information on the harddrive and install lots of zeros.  :-P
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Re: Win98 on internet:security measures
« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2005, 09:51:45 AM »
Thanx everyone for your advice. For me Amiga will always be about the community.  Eventually I decided to stay with Win 98SE  (although I have a copy of Win NT 4.0 with service pack 4.. any opinions on this over Win98SE) and got Sygate firewall, Adaware, AVG, Spybot installed, along with Firefox and its yet to blue screen and it is fast.  if I could get Ibrowse to print and into the bank and Superannuation sites I would ditch win98.

This has proven to be quite a good machine: it plays dvd's full screen, runs all office apps, quick on the net, great for digital photo manipulation and storage, and UAE flies on it.  it even has composite OUT and S-VHS IN, and a Cd burner: may turn all my VHS tapes into VIDEO CD
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