Just a coupla cents I feel compelled to throw in here:-

In the last few years, I've worked on quite a few W95 systems.

But I can't remember a single one that had a virus problem, even though a
many of them had an antivirus program that was well out of date.

I worked on the W95 home PC of a local pharmacist recently, who had NEVER
had an antivirus program installed since he'd bought it new.  And he uses
the internet like everybody else.

This does seem rather curious. Maybe I just haven't run across an infected
machine yet?

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Bachelder" Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Windows Security advice


> At 12:35 AM 1/24/03, you wrote:
>
> >I've been having a conversation with my sysadmin at work and he feels
> >that windows 95 is more secure than windows 2000, or windows XP.  He
> >feels that he is more secure than if he were to upgrade.  Never mind
> >that he has never applied a service pack, or browser update (running
> >win95a) and IE4.
> >
> >I contend that 2000 and XP are probably the better choice.............
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