Hello Tony, I misunderstood even what was being considered .. because I didn't even want to check on www.oldversion.com (if Norton warned against it) without first submitted it to some online site advisor for safety. But if McAfee gives it a tick then it is okay by me. McAfee is up there in same ranks as Nortons in such knowledge/competence. This means that just going to the site itself won't harm the computer. Then of course if you download an old program some such could be as suss now as they were then .. Reputable programs should be just fine. For example I see it offers for Eudora: """" Download Eudora Older Versions Eudora 1.4.4 (0.3 MB) Eudora 1.5.2 (0.7 MB) Eudora 1.5.4 (2.0 MB) Eudora Light 3.0.1 (4.0 MB) Eudora Light 3.0.3 (4.7 MB) Eudora Light 3.0.6 (4.4 MB) Eudora 5.1 (6.1 MB) Eudora 5.1.1 (6.2 MB) Eudora 5.2 (6.1 MB) Eudora 5.2.1 (6.1 MB) Eudora 6.0.1 (7.6 MB) Eudora 6.1.2 (8.1 MB) Eudora 6.2.1 (9.1 MB) Eudora 6.2.3 (9.1 MB) Eudora 7.0.1 (16.4 MB) """" I'm writing and sending this with Eudora Light 3.0.1 ,, which is primitive I know .. I've never wanted to "update". ... because "newer is not always better". In old Eudora I can actually find where things are on the hard disk. And you can convert a mailbox (MBX) simply to a Word DOC file (basically almost as easy as renaming it .. because its ascii/ansi or something). As for newer email programs like the inbuilt Microsoft one in Windows I have no idea at all where the data actually is on disk or how to access it .. so it is potentially an 'accident' waiting to happen, I think. Or maybe I am very old fashioned. Cheers, John At 07:30 PM 2/08/2009 +1000, you wrote: >Thanks Deb. Interesting comments; some say good, some say bad. I'm not >an expert so I think I'll go with those who say 'bad'. >Tony > >Deb wrote: >> Hi Tony, >> >> This is what McAfee has to say (they say it's OK though)... & interesting >> comments left by people including the owner of the site. >> http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/oldversion.com >> >> Deb. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tony" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 3:43 PM >> Subject: Re: [HV] Old versions of programs >> >> >> >>> Hi MargM, >>> >>> Just clicked on your link and got an instant message from Norton (my >>> anti-virus software) to say that the site was 'unsafe'. Don't know >>> exactly what that means, but it might be worth checking. >>> >>> Tony >>> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >