"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 >

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