Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS font exploit

Hi :)
I don't have any Win98 machines to worry about luckily but i know a couple of people that keep 
installing it for their clients.  

I tend to find lighter-weight Gnu&Linux distros are more up-to-date with drivers and stuff.  Wine 
makes it possible to run most apps designed for Windows although it can take a bit of work 
sometimes.  Luckily i am mostly able to avoid such old machines.

The info is good to know tho so thanks for that :)
Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Sat, 5/11/11, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS font exploit
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Saturday, 5 November, 2011, 21:30
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 20:19, Tom
> <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > That seems to list all the supported versions/distros
> of Windows but doesn't
> > included unsupported ones such as Win98.  Does that
> mean Win98 is safe or
> > just that they don't bother to look to see if it's
> vulnerable?
> >
>
> Windows 98 is vulnerable.
>
> Windows 98 is not supported by MS any longer, and there are
> literally
> thousands of unpatched known exploits for that OS. Windows
> 98 should
> only be used in non-networked single-purpose applications
> now, and
> furthermore an exit plan should be devised for all systems
> still
> running 98.
>
> If you are still using Windows 98 then this new
> vulnerability is the
> least of your security concerns.
>
> -- 
> Dotan Cohen
>
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