[Gllug] this week's windows hole
Nick Warrington
nick.warrington at automationpartnership.com
Fri Sep 12 10:15:03 UTC 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz [mailto:gj at pointblue.com.pl]
> Sent: 13 September 2003 02:26
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] this week's windows hole
>
>
> Ian Baillie wrote:
>
> > Isn't it ironic that the page states Win95 and Win98 users
> will not be
> > affected, and yet they still recommend you upgrade to a
> later version
> > of Windows!
> >
> No, that's marketing :D
>
I thought I read somewhere this year that M$ simply announced they were
giving up spending dosh trying to make Win98 secure and win users would have
to upgrade to something more recent or accept being at risk.
You would think after an announcement like that they would open up the
source to the community. I could do with a good laugh...
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