Dan Morris - KZ3T
Jerry — No more telephone booths any longer. This is exactly why our country is in the shape it is in and all the trouble we have. You see, now Superman has nowhere to change his clothes and he cannot save/help us anymore!!!
Sri, just couldn’t let that one go by!! lol
Thought I was buying from reputable dealer.Turned out to be guy operating from his garage or telephone booth (do those still exist ?).!
Jerry N9AVY
From: "'Milton Garb' n6mg@... [070]" <070@...>
To: 070@...
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:42 PM
Subject: RE: [070] Windows XP Vunerable
Just beware of who you buy it from... Milt. N6MG
Got my WIN7 laptop at local hamfest earlier this year... it had an illegal copy of WIN7 and was sold by a dealer (his card is still in my glove box !) . Not only an illegal copy, buy none of the drivers were installed. Cost me $$$ to get everything put right. Beware hamfest bargains unless you're knowledgeable.
From: "'Milton Garb' n6mg@... [070]" <070@...>
To: 070@...
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:42 PM
Subject: RE: [070] Windows XP Vunerable I’ve been using Avast free anti-virus software for years and years. I have 4 Win XP Pro laptops around here dedicated to different functions. They’re all Dell, with different processors, different amounts of RAM, etc. etc. But, in common, they all have Avast free software on them. My new Dell main frame came with Kaspersky, and it seems to be doing a good job. My XYL, Sandy has a new wazoo Dell laptop and it also came with Kaspersky. There is free software out there. Just go to the Avast website, or Norton or McAfee websites and dig a bit for it. BTW, I get all of my laptops at a local swap meet. They come with a legit copy of XP Pro and all but 1 came with Office XP on it. If remembering correctly, I paid $100 for the “biggest” of the lot. Hi Hi- They will keepit going till 2019 ,because of the ATM machines and THE Navy !! ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [070] Windows XP Vunerable I think it's all a "sales pitch" to convert everyone over to WIN 10 so the Microsoft can make billions more $$$ ! Many hams continue to use Windows XP on their shack computers and some older ham software fails on newer operating systems. Microsoft considers this operating system, which was introduced in 2001, to be obsolete. Official support for the operating system was discontinued in 2014.
Now, Microsoft has now announced that it will discontinue issuing antivirus signature updates for the Security Essentials package in Windows XP. Updates to the Malicious Software Removal tool are also being discontinued, leaving XP computers potentially vulnerable.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-xp-security-just-got-worse-again/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f
Thus, if you chose to continue use of Windows XP and you connect your computer to the Internet to use email, LoTW, eQSL, QRZ, Hamcall, online clusters, etc. you need to install an antivirus package and keep it updated periodically.
Although many antivirus packages (Norton, McAfee, Kapersky, etc. ) are commercial only packages, there are other companies who offer free versions of their software (AVG, AVIRA, AVAST, Panda, etc.). Thus, there is no reason for anyone to have an unprotected computer.
Of course, if your only network connection is through HF radio frequencies, then you have nothing to fear.
Be safe on-line.
N9RWC Ray
070 # 1793
LONP # 291
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