[Thinkpad] Protection software (?)

[Jonathan Berry]

On older hardware, Opera 9 would be better for everyday browsing,
as it is faster than Firefox.  In any case, you'd want a copy 
of Firefox on the machine to handle sites that are 
Opera-unfriendly.  I use both.

http://www.litepc.com/download.html
is a source for the free 98lite, and also for
IEradicator.

Don't use Outlook Express.  There are many viable alternatives
for email and news.

I don't know what the situation is now, but for a long time I
ran Win98 without anti-virus, no problem.  But that was after 
shutting down a long list of "holes", headed by IE, OE, IIS...
And also being protected behind a hardware router.
You'll feel and be a lot safer with Anti-Virus installed.  AVG
is good and free.  Though if you get behind in the updates, it 
can ask you to reboot an astounding number of times.


In article <288df61b0704261121pec3f007nd7a276196fa74801 at mail.gmail.com>, you wrote:
>It may be time to put a slim distro of Linux on it (Xubuntu?).  I know...
>common response.
>
>Ray beat me to most of my suggestions for Windows.  But if you must stick
>with Windows, and I can understand why, I would say that Firefox is also a
>must, as IE is a death wish on an OS that is EOL.
>
>Good luck
>
>Keith
>
>On 4/26/07, Bill Arnold <wsa10 at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Looking for recommendations for software to protect/avoid/maintain my
>> 390e running Windows 98.
>>
>> Main concern is virus/spyware.
>>

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happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm