07-13-18 09:27 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Windows Azure
Howdy! Mark,
ml> @MSGID: <5B48BE9F.15273.windowsa@capitolcityonline.net>
ml> On 2018 Jul 12 23:02:00, you wrote to Sean Dennis:
EV> Even though I don't 'think' I have any MS Azure software on this XP box,
ml> you don't have to have it to use it... in this case, you are not using
ml> it, m$ is and that's where they want the reports to be sent to...
EV> the next time either of those two IP Addresses that I've already
EV> checked, ask for access to the internet I will click the YES button so
EV> MS will get whatever report my pc wants to send to them.
ml> why not just go ahead and let them have access so you don't have to
ml> worry about that?
Because I want to feel like I'm In Control, even though I know I ain't.
EV> I have some other IP Addresses on my list already to let me know they
EV> are safe for me to send a report to Microsoft.
ml> those may be old and no longer used for that task...
If the Firewall asks permission to send something out, AND I'm not familiar with
the IP Address, I go to my list to see if I have already confirmed
who it going to, if the IP Address is on the list I click the Yes button,
if it isn't I do a little research - which may mean asking about it in a
BBS Echo.
EV> I began using the internet in 1996. But because I have read BBS
EV> Messages (since 1984) about tricks some people do over the internet I
EV> got paranoid, and I try to be "very very" careful.
ml> there's nothing wrong with being paranoid... being too paranoid can
ml> cause problems like not being paranoid enough...
I'm in the TOO catagory.
EV> After I turn a MS Windows pc ON I usually don't use it until after
EV> I've updated the Definitions for the 'Watchdog' programs I use on my
EV> pc, i.e.: AntiVirus, Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, Spybot S&D and
EV> Winpatrol.
ml> those should update automatically and you should be fine to use the machine
ml> before during or after their updates...
I use the Free version, so manually updating Definitions is required to
keep me happy.
The only 'Watchdog' program I haven't seen a Definition (or Version) Update
is Winpatrol.
I don't check it daily as I do the others since when I've last checked
their web page nothing has changed.
Their "Newsletter" hasn't been changed since July 2018 iirc.
EV> I don't have to do that when I turn the Power Switch on the C=64
EV> ON.....
ml> they're a non-target... XP is a known easy target...
I know Microsoft doesn't care for XP users.
I don't care to purchase another pc, as long as I can turn the power ON
this one.
I recently got a notice from Mozilla Firefox that they will not be updating
Firefox for XP or Vista.
I've played some with Ubuntu and a little bit with Mint.
Mozilla updates Firefox for Ubuntu the last time I looked at U'u.
I'd wish Microsoft would allow someone other than themselves to create
Updates for their unsupported products.
They pay their lawyers, so that will never happen, tho I wish they would.
The last time I looked at a J. C. Whitney auto parts catalog (many years ago)
parts for Ford Model T automobiles were available.
It has been a long time since the last Model T came off the Ford Assembly
Line.
I am beginning to learn some Parts for the Van I drive are not made anymore.
I still drive it.
EV> It doesn't take that much time for the Windows pc to do the updates,
EV> and I feel better after I've done the updates, that maybe the
EV> 'baddies' won't get access to my computer (this time).
ml> it will always be a chase game... you cannot stop what you do not know
ml> about and if they come up with a new way in that nothing detects,
ml> well...
I know there are some folks that enjoy making Malware, but I like having
a DSL connection so I can Log On a BBS, or do other surfing.
I'm sure one of these days, a Malware writer will write something this XP pc
isn't aware of, but I hope not very soon.
If it happens, I won't be reading and writing messages on any BBS, ...
unless I learn of a Local Dial-Up BBS.
... Wow! Short runway....but look how WIDE it is!!
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