My other computer, the one I use for back up when my newer one is in the shop is a little old poke. It is soon to find itself a Windows 98 orphan. My scanner, printer, and fax/modem are not Linux complient, if they were, I'd install Linux on the old goat. The old computer is too slow to handle Windows XP and has only 4 gigs worth of hard drive. Will the free software community look after these sad little waifs in the dark security wise? A VM would be too hard a load for this old clunker to carry.
Hey, Yep, just check the link in my sig AVG Free + Comodo firewall/Zone Alarm free will be enough, just read for yourself.
There's a Windows 98-specific across-the-board lockdown site, it's under the 8-steps how-to at http://www.geocities.com/yosponge Good site though it needs some Windows XP-specific how-tos too. Oh, yeah, make sure you apply the Microsoft GDI+ patch that came out, I think, last year. They may have also done one for WMF, otherwise, use the Microsoft-recommended workaround for disabling WMA/WMF support. I'm still seeing hackers trying to use that one.
