Built like a Mercedes (?)

Ya know I'm starting to get a visual on this "pooh bear". I can't for the
life of me undestand why a adult male would pick a chidlike name. But it is
what it is.


Roy

 

This being the internet, why did you ever assume it was an adult male???????

Denny

 

Well ol' pooh signs it's posts Graham. But what the hell does that prove?
Anyway you turned out to be a pink rabbit, although packing heat!
<BFG>

Roy

 

i don't think that is what graham, aka pooh bear, is packing though.

 

Message from Pooh Bear written on 2/5/2006 7:31 AM:

You may want to review the laundry list of vulnerabilities that outdated
software can expose your PC to. It's really a "best practices"
question.

 

But I use the browser as well. Many websites will not be handled
correctly by Netscape 4.x, and, in my case, caused the application to
freeze. Also, using an insecure OS like Win 98 doesn't help matters either.

 

Thats commercial towing. Any major highway in the USA is chocked full
of commerical trailers daily year round. I'm not sure what your point
is. There are far more recreational trailers in the USA than in the UK.
No comparison.

 

Perhaps you can enlighten me what vulnerabilities exist reading newsgroups.

I use Opera for web browsing.

My AV is set to auto-update ( it normally does so daily ) and I'm using a
recent version of Zone Alarm.

Graham

 

Obviously an older browser won't handle websites with all the clutter features
that exist now.

I use Opera for browsing.

What's so insecure about W98(SE) btw ?


Graham

 

Given nearly 5x the population that's hardly surprising.

Graham

 

If by that you mean on Windows-XP I'd agree. Otherwise, not so much
as you might think.

 

If you're running XP you're vulnerable just by being connected to the net
even if you're not doing anything. New vulnerabilities come out all the
time and it takes MS a few days at least to fix them. And that's being kind.

 

Turn Javascript off. This is a recording.

 

That may be true if you don't set up the computer correctly. Use strong
passwords, restricted accounts, make sure that you remove the
"Everybody" group from accessing the hard drive, etc.

 

fudge????

Denny

 

also notice, i didn't top post those smilies!

 

Well, I just went up to the "lower bruce" for the weekend. Green grass
all the way up Friday afternoon, and nice weather for the "Wiarton
Willie Festival" - then the snow hit. by Sunday morning we had 18
inches, and the power went out about 8pm Saturday.Anouther 8 inches or
more Sonday and overnight to Monday. We were snowed in. Left Monday
about noon and got as far south as Chesley - all roads in all
directions were closed so we spent the night at my Uncle's place and
managed to find open roads, in a roundabout fashion, to get back home
middle of the afternoon today (Tuesday).

 

You might want to learn something about software before claiming
intelligence about the subject you clearly DO NOT HAVE. Early
versions of browsers DID NOT have the vulnerabilities current versions
have. IE, Netscape and the rest have become MORE vulnerable, not
less.

*************************
Dave

 

What is a "long distance" in the UK Huw? About 10 times around the
whole bloomin' island would get you half way across Canada or the US
of A.