"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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If MS would keep updating it, I'd much prefer to stick with XP,
which
I still view as MicroSloth's peak in the Windows world. sigh But
now that they aren't updating, virii are a much larger problem.

I ran XP without any updates from March 2013 to March 2014 and had no
problems. AVG caught a few things it didn't like.

I make Seagate Disk Wizard backups of C: to DVD-DLs that can be booted
and restored from a read-only DVD drive. A virus would have to hide in
the BIOS or a peripheral to get back in after that, since I don't
network my on-line PC to the others, and the strict restrictions on
the account I browse with make that difficult.
jsw