Digital BW, The Print

Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:

>Bob Frost writes:
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>>But Windows is broken!
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>XP has worked fine for me for years, and I need it to continue doing so
>for my photo and other work.  Goofing around with updates would thus be
>completely illogical for me.
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It doesn't matter, after April 12, 2005 you WILL upgrade... "Resistance 
is futile..."

>>... which account for the vast majority of virus infections and most
>>of the spam that we receive.
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>People who send spam account for the spam; it has nothing to do with
>security.
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Wrong, a huge percentage of SPAM these days  is broadcast from Zombie 
machines hooked up to DSL or Cable.

That's why many ISP's now routinely block port 25, 80, and 100 requests 
that are not intranetwork..

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>>The updates are to cure these problems and to try and rid us of
>>viruses, trojans, and spam.
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>I don't have these problems, so I don't need a cure.
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It doesn't matter, you have no choice.  :-)   "We are Borg.."

>>I've been updating XP on several computers ever
>>since it came out with the weekly/monthly updates and have had no problems
>>at all with them. My spam level has reduced drastically since installing
>>SP2.
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>Microsoft thanks you, I'm sure.  I can't afford that kind of risk
>myself.
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Do it now and choose when you do it, or risk having it done automatically.

I hate the policy, but I've upgraded three machines with no problem, and 
these boxes have been quirky under earlier releases.
Keith

 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:
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