[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.

-- 
Peter Young (zfc W) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
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