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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 05 2014, @01:34PM
Care to explain the joke? I know what the host file is and how to use it. But the joke is not there for me.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bokononist on Wednesday March 05 2014, @02:48PM
apk was a troll on Slashdot for a few months, he used to write ridiculously long posts extolling the great virtues of hosts files and the endless good that they could do. He would copy and paste each post he made and add a few sentences at a time until his posts were insanely long. The apk jokes are based around relief that he finally went away I think.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
(Score: 2) by ticho on Wednesday March 05 2014, @03:23PM
Months? Try years. Or was it really just months that seemed like years, thanks to all the scrolling past APK's posts?
(Score: 2, Informative) by cwix on Wednesday March 05 2014, @04:41PM
Be careful using his name. He is like beatleguise. If you say his name three times in one post he shows up.
(Score: 1) by basecase on Thursday March 06 2014, @06:48PM
Jeremiah Cornielius