[Virtualacorn-list] End of Microsoft support for Windows XP
Peter Young
pnyoung at ormail.co.uk
Sun Apr 6 10:11:01 BST 2014
On 1 Apr 2014 Mike Hobbs <mike at greengenie.plus.com> wrote:
> In message <14E6E31B9A804195BAF52A48F8B00F47 at philipsdesktop>
> "T.O.M.S." <admin at toms12.plus.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> We're continuing to use the last-available *2012*
>> version of AVG Free (v2012.0.2197 on
>> http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus_32/12831/) as the
>> signature files are still fully valid but the programme itself does
>> not seem to have the problems associated with the 2013-14 versions.
> This version appears not to be available - "File not found".
[snip]
Not particularly a reply to this, but something worth reporting, I
think.
As the owner of a RISCBook (Windows XP running VRPC) I've had an
e-mail from Andrew at RComp giving helpful advice. His basic message
is "don't panic". Summarising his advice:
Don't use IE, and Chrome is probably better than Firefox,
particularly for banking, as it's automatically updated.
Make sure you have anti-virus installed. He recommends AVG,
and oddly, Microsoft Security Essentials; the latter seems
to be very out of favour at present. I've uninstalled MSSE
and downloaded AVG, which promptly found five Trojans that
MSSE had missed. Also use MalwareBytes regularly. That's
just fond some nasties for me too.
Take care over which sites you visit, e.g don't go to porn
sites or illegal download sites.
Uninstall Java. Here's a problem for me. In Add and Remove
programs I had two instances of Java. One installed nicely,
and the other one won't, giving an error message. I've taken
the drastic step of removing it from Program Files, and then
running CCleaner's registry scan, and deleting the files it
finds. It still shoes in Add or Remove Programs. Any more
advice on where I go from here?
A bit more caution doing online banking, and again use
MalwareBytes regularly.
If you must use e-mail from Windows, don't use Outlook Express.
Use either RISC OS (well, he would say that, wouldn't he!),
or in Windows, Thunderbird or MPro for Windows.
HTH, and sometime this year I'll get a new RISCBook probably.
Best wishes,
Peter.
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Peter Young (zfc W) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyoung at ormail.co.uk
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