full-disclosure - 70 million computers are using Windows 98 right now

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Message-ID: <20060711133941.789E.CARDOSOLISTAS@contraditorium.com>
Date: Tue Jul 11 17:53:17 2006
From: cardosolistas at contraditorium.com (Cardoso)
Subject: 70 million computers are using Windows 98 right
	now

Is it a hard mesure? Yes. Is it a high price to reduce the number of
zombie networks around the globe? No. I think the sypware guys will take
care of their own doom. 

Oh, firefox is jumping the wagon too. No 9x/me support to 3.0.

Anyway, who said anything about XP?

I don't think there's anything a 98 machine can do that a Linux machine
can't, beside games. It's a well known trick to extend hardware
usefullness. 

It's a "switch or die" situation. 

//no fanboy here, check my headers, plain old XP user. 

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:37:38 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

V> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:28:08 -0300, Cardoso said:
V> > but I agree. Let them die. 98 is a very unsafe plataform, hope the
V> > spyware guys act fast and kill all the remaining machines, under a ton
V> > of popups.
V> 
V> And where does that leave the users?  Have you considered that maybe some
V> of them are still using Win98 because they don't have a realistic upgrade
V> path?  WinXP may not install on their box, or run adequately - and just
V> telling them to upgrade isn't always an option.  There's large parts of the
V> world where a discarded box running Win98 is affordable, but a new box
V> and a legal copy of XP is just out of the question.
V> 
V> Phrased differently - how would *you* feel if *your* platform was the target
V> of the sort of attack you're advocating against Win98?

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