[ale] OT: Win98 + Infections

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 18:56, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Everytime I come to my parents house I have to clean crap off their
> win98 machine.  All of it is adware. I'm using a D-Link firewall and
> I do not think a firewall will solve this problem since most of 
> this mess comes through port 80.  Is there a way?
> 
> One solution is to have 2 machines.  One for Win98 for their windows
> stuff that is not connected to the internet.  The other running Linux
> for browsing and such.  Or dual-boot may work?

The easiest solution is to clean up the crap on the box, then TURN OFF
ACTIVE-X on IE (Set the security to high so if they find it by mistake
it is still unavailable). Then install Mozilla and the browser
extensions for flash. Now remove all IE icons and show them how to use
Mozilla.
> 
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