Comment from Terry Hollett on 2008-03-22

2008-03-22T17:07:45Z

Just a note to the above comment. I disabled system restore to conserve hard drive space, which was 4GB at the time, the hard drive size that is.

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Comment from Terry Hollett on 2008-03-22

2008-03-22T17:04:27Z

Lets not forget, and I'm not bashing Microsoft, although it may sound like it, but not everybody can aford to run out and buy a supercomputer everytime Microsoft decides to shove a new operating system in our face.

From the year 2004 to Nov 2007, my main computer was a P2-266mhz with 64MB RAM. It had WinXP Home edition with SP1. I could not put SP2 on because it bogged down my system to much. I disabled automatic updating and system restore and dispite this I'm proud to say I've never had an infection.

Of course I had antivirus, adware, firewall and so on. The point is there are still a lot of people out their with older systems, that can't afford to update. But as Microsoft decides to upgrade so does the security industry.

I have Avira AntiVir personal Edition and they no longer support Win98 or ME. Microsft doesn't even support XP with SP1 anymore. I wonder how many computers are infected because there is no protection available anymore.

I hear a lot of people say, "Oh, computers have come down in price" - I like to throw my computer at these people. I currently have a P2-400mhz system, but only because I got lucky at a yard sale, it cost me $20.

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