Re: What's the story with the "end of XP"?



Chris Hills wrote:
<cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes
The Real Andy wrote:
Steve wrote:

... snip ...

Net security is best looked at pro-actively, not re-actively.
Block everything coming in using a proper firewall - trying to
get the latest windows updates to patch known holes is a
never-ending battle.

And this differs from linux and Mac exactly how?

To start with, the source is available for Linux. MAC ??

The availability of the source is completely irrelevant.

Here we go again :-)

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