Re: my farewell message:

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 17:07:49 -0400
Lin Sprague <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not so. My NAT firewall, anti-virus, safe Internet habits, and common 
> sense continues to keep me protected as it has for decades. It may
> not be the best choice these days, especially for someone not
> technical, but that's no reason to spread FUD.

And how likely is it that the OP is using those same measures?  If the
OP was capable of doing what you do, they would not be asking for help
with audacity, in all likelihood.

I consider you an exception, and would still say that XP is insecure.
Years ago, I used to get hits every 5 minutes on known XP exploits.  And
now that it has had no security updates for several years, there will
be known exploits without any protection.  Sure, if you put a hardware
firewall as you have, that minimizes exposure, but, again, most people
don't.  Are companies still updating their anti-virus products for XP?

It is probably possible to run dos 6.2 or windows 3.1 securely on the
web, but the average person isn't going to be able to do that.

The wannacry attack that happened recently was principally carried by
windows 7 machines that hadn't been patched for known security exploits
that Microsoft had issued security patches for.  But, there were a
significant number of XP machines used as well.

For you, calling XP insecure is FUD.  For the average naive windows
user, I don't think so.

We'll just have to agree to disagree.

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