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Re: Keeping Win 10 safe

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On 16 Jan 2025 18:57:58 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
wrote:

>  FYI, there are several people in these Windows newsgroups who still
>run Windows XP and 7 (and probably some running 8.1 and even Vista) and
>who get by with practicing safe hex and optional malware protection.

Yes, I'm still running XP. and a lot of more recently devised things
for "keeping computing safe" are counter-productive. For example, 99%
of the web sites I visit warn me that their certificates have expired,
or are for a different site. When "safety" features cry "Wolf" like
that they tend to be routinely ignored. 

But there are old-fashioned elementary precautions one can take that
are far more effective. For example, I practise safe hex by only
allowing plain text email messages. That means that 80% of the "Click
Here" links in phishing messages don't work at all, and the others can
be dealt with by hovering the cursor over the link and seeing that it
doesn't match the pretended link. 


-- 
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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Keeping Win 10 safe Bennett Price <bjprice@cal.berkeley.edu> - 2025-01-16 10:13 -0800
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-16 18:57 +0000
    Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-16 15:02 -0600
    Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-17 07:31 +0200
      Re: Keeping Win 10 safe "Thomk" <thmk@aol.com> - 2025-03-06 15:03 +0200
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-16 17:20 -0500
    Re: Keeping Win 10 safe "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-16 23:37 +0100
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Head of Cyber Security <security@cyber-security.com> - 2025-01-17 01:17 +0000
  Re: Keeping Win 10 safe Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-17 08:55 -0500

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