2 The versions of Operation System(including security patches) 1
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Topic: Information Security
vulnerability on Windows95 Family
on 14 June 2006 microsoft has announced that they do not provide any patch for windows95 family in order to fix the serious vulnerabbility of Explorer.
Generally to say,Windows95 fmaily includes Windows95,Windows95OSR2,Windows98,Windows98SE2,WindowsMe is the same operation system basically and Windows2000 and WindowsXP are the earnestly different operation systems in spite of their resemble looking.Since 1996 windows 95 family has been used among individuals,soho and companies as the easy OS to drop into internet world and office use.Since Windows95 family succeedes MS-DOS compatibility,architecture of user identification is quite infant. there are network function which did not take into account of the network security.Nontheless windows95 family has some value in its security.
The most of the people regard windows95 familly as out of date,as Microsoft give its support up.But it means that the most of hacker and anti social powers tend to neglect Windows 95 family.Actually malicios softwares and attacking methods fix their target on WindowsXP and Windows2000.So there is paradox on Windows.
I use Windows98SE2(this version is the easyest to install current hardware) with antivirus software,Antispyware software,Personal firewall and some configuration of registry.Off course this is my 2nd machine.Old fashioned Duron Processor(less than 1Ghz) or K6-II processor can run Windows98 very stable under the environment enough memory space(but only 128MB).1 Kind of Operation System