Appalbarry writes:
"Microsoft is about to abandon Windows XP to the wolves. Fair enough it's ancient. However, there are still going to be a lot of XP boxes out there, and a fair number of them are unlikely to ever get upgraded until the hardware dies.
My question is: what's available to help make this old OS stay reasonably secure and safe for the people who can't or won't abandon it?
Over the years I've been through Central Point Antivirus, Norton, McAfee, AVG, stuff like Zone Alarm, and of course the various Microsoft anti-malware offerings. But since moving over to Linux I really haven't kept up on the wild and wonderful world of Windows security tools.
Suggestions?"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:42AM
There is only one choice you can make that will keep XP secure.
Erase it from your disks and install Linux instead.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:08PM
In this modern era of mobile devices, just use the gmail app on your phone and the facebook app on your phone. How to protect my sons old computer for email was a puzzle to me as a linux/unix guy, but it was explained to me that no one uses email on their desktops anymore. Its all tablet and email is only for corporate receipts and the like. Non corporate conversations between people no longer use email, all text or IM or facetime or google hangouts or whatever.
Its like being concerned about my son's teletype machine or telegraph key. I mean, I have stuff like that for ham radio fooling around, but normal people don't.
Why use email (aka gmail) or web (aka facebook) on an old computer at all, ever?