Windows 97
Mar 26, 2019 12:23:32 #
JamesCurran wrote:
Please note that should you connect either of those machines to the Internet, they will be hacked within minutes. Microsoft hasn't issued security updates for those in years, and there are an army of computer seeking out unprotected computers on the net.
I have that computer connected to the net for years, and no such thing has ever happened!
Mar 26, 2019 14:18:16 #
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Loc: Cabo Frio - Brazil
oldman2000 wrote:
I used to do in-house IT for a lawyer I worked with. He had Win 95, bought a USB scanner when the court system started requiring electronic filings. He asked me to set it up. I told him the USB support for Win 95 was "theoretical at best," and I had heard nothing but bad experiences. "Try it anyway." So, after the inevitable "blue screen of death", I was able to bill several more hours getting his data back!
Good times...Mar 26, 2019 15:10:18 #
Kuzano wrote:
I was intro'd to Windows with version 3.0. There is still a version of Windows 3.1 that runs on current computers. I started teaching Windows at the local Community College with Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Works. That was in 1992/93. Just retired a year ago when teaching Windows 10.
MS also sold versions of 3.1x. We used v3.12 at Ford until we went to Dell hardware and Win95.
I guess it depends on how many copies of the O/S you need, and what else you want to run in the way of productivity. We ended up with Word, Excel, Database, PowerPoint, and some others in our first Office Suite.
We had a plethora of MS/DOS, and other party software, including Harvard Graphics, WordPerfect, Lotus123, Lotus Notes, etc. You can imagine what a tower of Babel we had, trying to share data, make presentations, etc.
Lotus and Harvard Graphics were superior, but standardization were more important to us.
Of course, MS made a boatload of money from us. However, by 2001, the bloom was off, and we were looking for better ways of serving software. MS resisted for almost five years after we started requesting a by-the-click metering system. We had lots of folks who never used half the software.
Voila, comes the "thin client"; no software on the box, and everything downloaded from the internal net. They finally relented around 2007, when I retired. Now, it's common.
Mar 27, 2019 08:06:43 #
speters wrote:
I have that computer connected to the net for years, and no such thing has ever happened!
How would you know? Generally, they have a background task send out a few million SPAM emails, scan for other vulnerable computers, then shut down, leaving no trace. The hackers want you computer cycles, not your data. You might notice a spike in your internet usage, but that's it.
Mar 30, 2019 19:54:45 #
JamesCurran wrote:
How would you know? Generally, they have a background task send out a few million SPAM emails, scan for other vulnerable computers, then shut down, leaving no trace. The hackers want you computer cycles, not your data. You might notice a spike in your internet usage, but that's it.
I was responding to the claim that I would have a virus within minutes on my computer!
Mar 30, 2019 20:34:42 #
speters wrote:
I was responding to the claim that I would have a virus within minutes on my computer!
No, I said it would be hacked within minutes. Viruses are from kiddies within are playing power games. True hackers know they'll never get caught if you ever know you were hit.
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