Subj : Re: Windows Azure To : mark lewis From : Ed Vance Date : Sun Jul 15 2018 23:44:00 07-13-18 09:27 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Windows Azure Howdy! Mark, ml> @MSGID: <5B48BE9F.15273.windowsa@capitolcityonline.net> ml> On 2018 Jul 12 23:02:00, you wrote to Sean Dennis: EV> Even though I don't 'think' I have any MS Azure software on this XP box, ml> you don't have to have it to use it... in this case, you are not using ml> it, m$ is and that's where they want the reports to be sent to... EV> the next time either of those two IP Addresses that I've already EV> checked, ask for access to the internet I will click the YES button so EV> MS will get whatever report my pc wants to send to them. ml> why not just go ahead and let them have access so you don't have to ml> worry about that? Because I want to feel like I'm In Control, even though I know I ain't. EV> I have some other IP Addresses on my list already to let me know they EV> are safe for me to send a report to Microsoft. ml> those may be old and no longer used for that task... If the Firewall asks permission to send something out, AND I'm not familiar with the IP Address, I go to my list to see if I have already confirmed who it going to, if the IP Address is on the list I click the Yes button, if it isn't I do a little research - which may mean asking about it in a BBS Echo. EV> I began using the internet in 1996. But because I have read BBS EV> Messages (since 1984) about tricks some people do over the internet I EV> got paranoid, and I try to be "very very" careful. ml> there's nothing wrong with being paranoid... being too paranoid can ml> cause problems like not being paranoid enough... I'm in the TOO catagory. EV> After I turn a MS Windows pc ON I usually don't use it until after EV> I've updated the Definitions for the 'Watchdog' programs I use on my EV> pc, i.e.: AntiVirus, Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, Spybot S&D and EV> Winpatrol. ml> those should update automatically and you should be fine to use the ml> machine before during or after their updates... I use the Free version, so manually updating Definitions is required to keep me happy. The only 'Watchdog' program I haven't seen a Definition (or Version) Update is Winpatrol. I don't check it daily as I do the others since when I've last checked their web page nothing has changed. Their "Newsletter" hasn't been changed since July 2018 iirc. EV> I don't have to do that when I turn the Power Switch on the C=64 EV> ON..... ml> they're a non-target... XP is a known easy target... I know Microsoft doesn't care for XP users. I don't care to purchase another pc, as long as I can turn the power ON this one. I recently got a notice from Mozilla Firefox that they will not be updating Firefox for XP or Vista. I've played some with Ubuntu and a little bit with Mint. Mozilla updates Firefox for Ubuntu the last time I looked at U'u. I'd wish Microsoft would allow someone other than themselves to create Updates for their unsupported products. They pay their lawyers, so that will never happen, tho I wish they would. The last time I looked at a J. C. Whitney auto parts catalog (many years ago) parts for Ford Model T automobiles were available. It has been a long time since the last Model T came off the Ford Assembly Line. I am beginning to learn some Parts for the Van I drive are not made anymore. I still drive it. EV> It doesn't take that much time for the Windows pc to do the updates, EV> and I feel better after I've done the updates, that maybe the EV> 'baddies' won't get access to my computer (this time). ml> it will always be a chase game... you cannot stop what you do not know ml> about and if they come up with a new way in that nothing detects, ml> well... I know there are some folks that enjoy making Malware, but I like having a DSL connection so I can Log On a BBS, or do other surfing. I'm sure one of these days, a Malware writer will write something this XP pc isn't aware of, but I hope not very soon. If it happens, I won't be reading and writing messages on any BBS, ... unless I learn of a Local Dial-Up BBS. .... Wow! Short runway....but look how WIDE it is!! --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 * Origin: Capitol City Online - capitolcityonline.net (1:2320/105) .