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 -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 8:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List 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. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
