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   
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