Virus Guy <Virus@Guy.com> wrote in news:4FFF54BA.F03B0172@Guy.com:

> I actually meant to say no. I meant to say:
>
> Not for a system running Windows 98.

Technically, they don't exist for NT either. There is no user root on
NT. It's an abused term for a stealthy trojan package.

> No they don't.

Yes, yes they do. You can't run the latest IE browser(s). Your system
depends on IE for it's html rendering internally; even if you use
firefox and/or chrome, some win98 features will still be IE specific.

Which means, vulnerable as ****. If you use a 3rd party tool to force
IE's complete removal from Win9x, you will break some features
(hahaha).

You have no file permissions, no real user permissions. If an
application has a serious crash, it'll take the entire machine down
with it. If the application wants to diddle another apps memory space,
it has free reign to do so.

If you run more than 45 days (I think it is) continous, you will blue
screen and hard crash out. This is a known fact with win9x machines.
memory management.

> As someone who has been running win-98 on several systems for the
> past 12 years, I can say that it is invulnerable to web-based threats
> over that time-frame - unlike win-NT based machines that are
> constantly getting ****ed over by hackers because NT (which includes
> 2k/xp/the-abortion-known-as-vista/7) is so poorly designed to be an
> internet-facing OS.

I don't care how long you've been pointing and clicking things. As
well, let's be honest, that's what you do. You don't actually code or
anything so you're not in a good position to tell us how secure win9x
is or isn't.

Your win9x system is just as vulnerable to my old viruses as it was the
day I released them. Seriously.

> Just look at what happened with XP between 2002 and 2006.

Would you like to be a little more specific? Many things were happening
in those years.

> You were a fool to be surfing the web with XP during those years.
> Meanwhile exploit attempts just bounced off win-98 systems during
> those years.

Just bounced off? If they were IE specific and didn't download NT
specific files, they weren't bouncing off anywhere.

I've ran XP during those years and never had any issues. I'm not a
moronic twit tho, so that might have had something to do with it.

Most of the present day malware would run fine on win9x, if it didn't
check to see what OS you were running. Yep, most of the fakeAV programs
will run under win9x; so long as they aren't checking OS version and
shutting down if they don't see NT. Aside from mimicking certain GUI
aspects of XP, win9x has no issue supporting the majority of them. It's
when the malware wants to do users, extra functionality, etc.. that
win9x can't support it; due to it being inferior technology.

It still supports PE32bit executables, native. Which means, unless the
app/malware is specific for NT and ONLY NT, your box will run it just
fine.



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