[Virtualacorn-list] End of Microsoft support for Windows XP

[Chris@note2]

Chris, have you an opinion on Avast?

 I've used it on various non Risc platforms.  Its waved the occasional flag but not so many as to form an opinion for recommendation.


Best wishes,
Chris.

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chris Hughes <chris at noonehere.co.uk> </div><div>Date:24/04/2014  23:25  (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk </div><div>Subject: Re: [Virtualacorn-list] End of Microsoft support for Windows XP </div><div>
</div>In message <987490fd53.mike at greengenie.plus.net>
          Mike Hobbs <mike at greengenie.plus.com> wrote:

> In message <6DC968C5AEBC4FC7A1C5E018A5354956 at philipsdesktop>
>           "T.O.M.S." <admin at toms12.plus.com> wrote:

> [snip]
>> The firewall built into Windows XP still seem to be working OK on our
>> machines and (AFAICT) there haven't been any dire warnings on the more
>> reliable forums. Is anyone still using MS Security Essesntials and, if
>> so, does it appear to be working?
> I've used it on a couple of XP machines for a while and a trusted
> friend suggested I use it instead of AVG when we first started to
> have the performance problems.  However, MSSE has never, ever,
> thrown up any virus warnings so I am skeptical as to whether its
> doing anything.  Like most people, we receive emails that look like
> they might contain viruses and MSSE has never thrown a warning,
> either during mail scanning, or during file system scanning.

Microsoft Security Essentials does not even touch emails (so does not 
scan them)

>> However, I think the problem with the Windows built-in firewall is
>> that it protects against incoming threats only. Is that right?
> Windows XP firewall stops ShareFS from working (and, yes, I have
> tried to set appropriate exceptions in the firewall settings). So I
> have it turned off on our house network and rely on the firewalls in
> the routers.  I actually don't see that the Windows firewall is going
> to do anything more than the routers do except to possibly protect
> one computer from another on our intranet. The real threats are
> the trojans in emails and active URLs that will bypass any firewall.

ShareFS does work with the Windows Firewall.

You are better with something like Zone Alarm Free Firewall or a 
proper Internet security package, that protects against malware, virus 
and scans emails, and checks websites etc.


-- 
Chris Hughes
Wakefield Show 26th April 2014 - http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk

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