Originally posted by: JED

The main reason I'm staying on W98 is because is less vulnerable to viruses. I mean, people who program viruses do it for WXP or W200, not for oldies like W98.

I work for one the world's largest software companies and leaders in computer security, and my job is virus detection, removal and prevention. I won't mention which company though as you'll all want free software lol

But they are involved with F1 Racing :hint hint:

Basically as far as I am concerned Win2000/XP/2003 etc are much more secure operating systems, provided the user has applied all the latest MS patches, password protected their Administrator account (i.e. don't leave this account with a blank password) and have ensured they have no open shares.

Win9x machines are vulnerable to nearly all Win32 platform viruses, but of course like what I assume JED was referring to, there are some specifically targetted at n00b users of the WinNT platform, who have not secured their PC. Some examples are the Blaster, Sasser, Rbot, Agobot etc.

My two cents on an off-topic, but a VERY important topic for all PC users.

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