E_Net_Rider
Thu May 19 15:45:26 CDT 2005
That's the excuse, but security is critical?
Several years back, running anti viral programs was pretty spotty among home
users. Corporations were constantly upgrading trying to fend off the
barrage.
And then there was AOL. Pretty much rumored to be a major spreader, but then
they were the largest and it might be easier to move such around within a
single ISP. They didn't start giving out anti viral software just for the
heck of it. They had some major downages. MS and many other major
corporations did. So, in effect, the bigger corporations are buying the
software so the small guy can use it and help in the fight against the tidal
wave of attacks.
Slightly different scenario with 98 and ME, but those systems will likely be
around for years beyond the support. Especially in third world countries.
And from what I hear this wireless is like leaving the garage door open to
someone who knows what he is doing. And it seems to be becoming widely
available.
Sure third world is mostly because of economics, and most in this country
are pranksters. But there are those out there who sincerely would love to
shut down business, banking, etc. here. I'd bet that if those OS are still
widespread when MS plans on pulling their finger out of the dike that the
Dept of Homeland Security will have a talk with them. And if wireless
reaches the level of criticallity that viruses did about a year ago, maybe
they will be forced to patch it as well.
I know of a aircraft manufacturer, that has a few small government
contracts. The government wants some of it under deep lock and key because
such as the First Lady and other important people fly on them occaisonally.
Even though they have pretty tight security and use XP and other corporate
level systems and programs, they had to ban wireless last year.
"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
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> Norman,
>
> The simple answer is that Win 98 and Win Me are both out of support other
> than for critical vulnerabilities
> (
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;LifeAn1).
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
>
>
> E_Net_Rider <E_Net_Rider@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks very much for that link. I'll work through that site as time
> > allows and post back.
> > BTW, being reminded of this issue after visiting that site. Why is it
> > that only XP supports the newest level of wireless security? With all
> > of the associated trouble, why hasn't MS released an update to
> > plug-in to all OS's? Surely it can't be that difficult!
>