Originally Posted by
mixture
No Keef.
I think you have to go back and read up on your fundamentals.
I do that every morning, and preach on them most Sundays.
However, to get into my computer (and those of the folks in question), the "nasty" has to get through the firewall in the router. That comes before any APIs in the computer. Or do firewalls not work if the connected computer is using XP?
However, the argument is now in a spin. The folk in question are using XP and aren't going to change. I'm not going to spend weeks swapping them to Linux (not even Linux Mint), and they aren't going to spend a large chunk of pension on Microsoft products. Their firewalls and AV are all they have between them and eternal perdition. So far so good...
Originally Posted by
OFSO
The only machine which has thrown up a malware detected notification since support for XP was withdrawn is a WIN7 laptop.
I get several per day from Avast, invariably referring to one of those pesky Russian spam e-mails with virus attached. They are obviously trying to convert me...