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19579823 (banned)
An Awesome Dude
join:2003-08-04

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19579823 (banned) to ZZZZZZZ

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As long as you have a firewall and AV you should be fine!!!



You should be able to run XP for as long as ya like!!

Kilroy
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join:2002-11-21
Saint Paul, MN

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Kilroy

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said by 19579823:

As long as you have a firewall and AV you should be fine!

Sorry, that isn't even close to enough. A firewall will protect you from a worm. AV software can only protect you from things it knows about. I highly recommend reading Mark Russinovich's Zero Day. If the name Mark Russinovish sounds familiar he was a cofounder of Wininternals Software, a little company that Microsoft purchased. It offers a wonderful example of how even doing everything right doesn't protect you from becoming infected.

Need to run as a limited user.
Do not use Flash
Do not use Java

XP itself isn't the problem, it is how it is used. We'll see in a little over a month how badly XP will be owned.

Dustyn
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join:2003-02-26
Ontario, CAN
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said by 19579823:


You should be able to run XP for as long as ya like!!

Along with Windows 98 and IE6 right?

howardfine
join:2002-08-09
Saint Louis, MO

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You can install any other browser on XP and be far better off for it.
19579823 (banned)
An Awesome Dude
join:2003-08-04

19579823 (banned) to Dustyn

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Yes buddy.... Anyone should be able to run what they are happy with