full-disclosure - 70 million computers are using Windows 98rightnow

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Date: Wed Jul 12 22:56:24 2006
From: THe_ZiPMaN at zipman.it (Flavio Visentin)
Subject: 70 million computers are using
	Windows	98rightnow

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Castigliola, Angelo wrote:
> There are no known remote exploits for the
> Windows 98 operating system.

This doesn't mean that W98 is secure. On Secunia's site the latest
(corrected) vulnerability is dated 20060613, less than 1 month ago, and
tomorrow someone could find a new one that won't be corrected.

> I Could not tell you how many exploits are
> out there for Internet Explorer or Outlook\Express that will allow
> someone to compromise Windows 98 but I guess very few.

You don't need 2000 vulnerability. It's enough only one exploit to
create a 70 millions PC zombi net.

> is a better solution then the open source
> solutions that are notorious for features not working with Microsoft
> rich websites (if the website\application loads at all).

Maybe you are just getting confused. One thing is security and another
one are the "features". From a *security* point of view, OSS solutions
like FF or TB, can be more secure than the counterparts IE and OE.

However, AFAIR, browser's *features* are not the main topic of this
mailing list

> Seems like the
> major computer nerds always recommend firefox for windows however if you
> use a lot of .NET web applications then firefox is a very poor solution.

Seems MS partners are recommending using IE, but if you use a lot of XUL
applications IE is really the worst solution.

But I think this is OT, here, don't you agree?

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Flavio Visentin
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