Oh wait no it didn't
I keep hearing about possible problems with the above and today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
I'm still running Windows XP and relying on the free version of Avast although I do also run Malwarebyses AntiMalware and Spybot regularly.
Should I do anything else prior to 15th June?
John.
Dont go on Russian porn sites. . . . . . .Again!!
There has been a lot of dangerous malware emails on the the go the last 6 months, the danger bit is the attachment.
Two law firms my wife works for have been hit, one has a continuing spambot problem the other had a near miss when money was taken from an account
and only just stopped in time.
These scamwares all work by false authority syndrome no matter how respectable or official the sender may seem if you are not expecting an email
don't open any attachments or better still don't open the email.
My own email is screened by the hosting company for my web domain and the mail is downloaded by Thunderbird through a K9 a filtering proxy server
running on my on PC.
K9 is set to use the spamhaus black list and my own private white list and black list.
The few that get through the hosting company filters are usually caught by K9 and tagged
In addition the junk filters on Thunderbird are set up not to down load and automatically delete any mail which have the top level domains of former
Easters block countries, Brazil, Nigeria, Thailand and other malware hot spots contained anywhere in the email header.
Together with a paid for Avira anti-malware it seems to work.
[Edited on 11/6/14 by britishtrident]
[Edited on 11/6/14 by britishtrident]
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Originally posted by John P
I keep hearing about possible problems with the above and today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
I'm still running Windows XP and relying on the free version of Avast although I do also run Malwarebyses AntiMalware and Spybot regularly.
Should I do anything else prior to 15th June?
John.
Simple solution backup! And don't do stupid things like download unknown files on your computer that also stores your life from the year dot. I use my laptop for general surfing and my desktop for less internet related stuff. Everything is backed up to my nas then my nas auto backup's to a USB HDD at regular intervals.
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Originally posted by jeffw
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Originally posted by John P
I keep hearing about possible problems with the above and today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
I'm still running Windows XP and relying on the free version of Avast although I do also run Malwarebyses AntiMalware and Spybot regularly.
Should I do anything else prior to 15th June?
John.
You obviously are not that concerned about security if you are using an un-supported OS and a free AV scanner. What has EE sent you? Is it an email saying your IP is part of the Botnet that the US has taken the command and control over?
Plan B could be to dump XP and move onto a less vulnerable system - Mac (if that's your thing) or Linux.
I use Linux Mint, which is free and can be tested on your own system without removing XP - you just load it onto a DVD and run from that. It's a
bit slow, but you can see how it works and decide if it's what you want before committing yourself. It comes with a complete MS Office
equivalent (LibreOffice) that can read all of the MS file types, plus there are a load of free and high quality applications to download.
It all depends on whether you have any applications that can only run on Windoze - I have 1 or 2, and I keep MS Vista on a laptop so that I can deal
with those. Otherwise, all my work is on Linux.
One course of action you can consider is to take out the hard disk with XP on it, and put in a blank one (e.g. one from ebay). Load Linux Mint onto
that and see what you think of it when it's running at its full speed. If you like it, leave that hard disk in place - if you don't, just
swap them back. This is what I do with my laptop: normally it has the Vista hard disk installed, but I load another drive when I want to try out a
new Linux version.
If your machine is a bit old and tired, consider trying Linux Mint Xfce - it's a lean and mean version that's been written to use less
resources, so runs quicker on older machines (but see note below). Otherwise just download Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon from the
Linux home page, burn it onto a DVD and have a play!
Note: Mint have just released version 17, so the Xfce version isn't available at the moment - due to arrive shortly. They wanted to get the 2
main versions (Cinnamon and Mate) out first before doing the flavours.
Actually I am concerned but it looks like my hardware won't run Windows 7 (I'm not in a position to buy a new PC) and I also have an early
version of AutoCAD LT which I use fairly regularly but isn't compatible with Windows 7.
I would be happy to pay for a reliable anti-virus programme but apart from Avast those I've tried, including AVG and Norton, cause my old
hardware to be almost unusable.
I was using Microsoft Security Essentials which was fine but is also not supported now which is what prompted the change to Avast.
John.
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Originally posted by John P
Actually I am concerned but it looks like my hardware won't run Windows 7 (I'm not in a position to buy a new PC) and I also have an early version of AutoCAD LT which I use fairly regularly but isn't compatible with Windows 7.
I would be happy to pay for a reliable anti-virus programme but apart from Avast those I've tried, including AVG and Norton, cause my old hardware to be almost unusable.
I was using Microsoft Security Essentials which was fine but is also not supported now which is what prompted the change to Avast.
John.
The millennium bug is going to bring the world to an end!!!!!
Oh wait no it didn't
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Originally posted by John P
today even got an e-mail from EE about the issues.
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Originally posted by onenastyviper
A potential solution - swap hard drives and install linux mint. You can then download Draftsight for Linux for free and I think it is just as good as autocad lt.
