I haven't had time to pay much attention (son and his family moving this week), but I have Vista on my computer and I don't mind it. Should I be comcerned? I don't use Chrome. Tried it, didn't like it, but am willing to give it another go if you think I should do so. Mary Finley ----- Original Message ----- From: "george" <briard6pack@att.net> To: <gen-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [GN] AOL & Microsoft security for XP past April 2014 > One thing user can do to help a bit, admittedly a small bit, is to use > Chrome for a browser as much as possible,, Another thing to know about > win8.1 which is the latest iteration, is MS sky drive is automatically > turned on by default..Not bad mouthing it, but I sure don't want my data > sitting on a MS server somewhere, especially now that the NSA has a > backdoor > to just about every ISP. Fortunately it can be turned of, but it is a pian > in the butt to figure out how....Another thing is it is best to disable > able > it before you load anything,,, data /Program etc on the system.. > > Cheers > George & the SixPack > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cora Henricks > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 12:33 PM > To: gen-newbie@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GN] AOL & Microsoft security for XP past April 2014 > > "Support for the Windows XP comes to an end this year, but Microsoft will > continue to provide virus warnings until Summer 2015" > > The above is the subtitle of the article...... I figure it is better than > nothing for those who have no choice except to continue using Win XP after > April 2014 and wanted to make people aware of this much being available > even if Windows Updates for XP won't be. This will be Microsoft Security > Essentials which I use now on my Windows machines (use a Chromebook for my > daily computing). Anyone still using less than SP3 on Win XP and planning > to continue using XP should get all available updates including SP3 before > Win Updates for Win XP stop in about a month from now. > > As for ads, I learned to ignore them a long time ago........ > > Cora > >> ------------------------------------------ >> Woody wrote: >> > > >> I have XP and am concerned, so I looked at the link. MS isn't >> providing >> security support past April 2014. They'll just pass along warnings with >> no security fixes for XP. >> >> AOL's web mail is pretty good, and the web mail provides a more standard >> looking outgoing e-mail look than the "on computer" software. . I >> didn't >> know that the web mail could provide anything over 1,000 e-mails in one >> folder, but upon checking in AOL's "help", I find that AOL's e-mail >> storage is >> now unlimited.. >> >> Hmm, my "on computer" AOL program doesn't hit me with a big page of >> advertising when I open empty folders. AOL web mail does. >> >> Woody >> > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Mary,, my comments were for winXP,,, you should be okay with Vista... Hugs -----Original Message----- From: Mary Finley Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:01 PM To: gen-newbie@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GN] AOL & Microsoft security for XP past April 2014 I haven't had time to pay much attention (son and his family moving this week), but I have Vista on my computer and I don't mind it. Should I be comcerned? I don't use Chrome. Tried it, didn't like it, but am willing to give it another go if you think I should do so. Mary Finley ----- Original Message ----- From: "george" <briard6pack@att.net> To: <gen-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [GN] AOL & Microsoft security for XP past April 2014 > One thing user can do to help a bit, admittedly a small bit, is to use > Chrome for a browser as much as possible,, Another thing to know about > win8.1 which is the latest iteration, is MS sky drive is automatically > turned on by default..Not bad mouthing it, but I sure don't want my data > sitting on a MS server somewhere, especially now that the NSA has a > backdoor > to just about every ISP. Fortunately it can be turned of, but it is a pian > in the butt to figure out how....Another thing is it is best to disable > able > it before you load anything,,, data /Program etc on the system.. > > Cheers > George & the SixPack > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cora Henricks > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 12:33 PM > To: gen-newbie@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GN] AOL & Microsoft security for XP past April 2014 > > "Support for the Windows XP comes to an end this year, but Microsoft will > continue to provide virus warnings until Summer 2015" > > The above is the subtitle of the article...... I figure it is better than > nothing for those who have no choice except to continue using Win XP after > April 2014 and wanted to make people aware of this much being available > even if Windows Updates for XP won't be. This will be Microsoft Security > Essentials which I use now on my Windows machines (use a Chromebook for my > daily computing). Anyone still using less than SP3 on Win XP and planning > to continue using XP should get all available updates including SP3 before > Win Updates for Win XP stop in about a month from now. > > As for ads, I learned to ignore them a long time ago........ > > Cora > >> ------------------------------------------ >> Woody wrote: >> > > >> I have XP and am concerned, so I looked at the link. MS isn't >> providing >> security support past April 2014. They'll just pass along warnings with >> no security fixes for XP. >> >> AOL's web mail is pretty good, and the web mail provides a more standard >> looking outgoing e-mail look than the "on computer" software. . I >> didn't >> know that the web mail could provide anything over 1,000 e-mails in one >> folder, but upon checking in AOL's "help", I find that AOL's e-mail >> storage is >> now unlimited.. >> >> Hmm, my "on computer" AOL program doesn't hit me with a big page of >> advertising when I open empty folders. AOL web mail does. >> >> Woody >> > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ******************** Gen-Newbie's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message