[ekim68]

You know Jo, I agree. A good security setup and a proper operational os is good to go.
If it works, don't fix it...And, Ben, thanks so much for this. I'm saving it all...

[bellgamin]

Based on information I've gathered over time, from Wilders, Gladiator, Dozleng, & other security sites, I put together a list of good security app for WinME, & posted it over YONDER.

Forgive me, please, for not posting that stuff here in this thread. I thought it might be better kept separate so that the thread could be kept to security matters for WinME. I keep hoping that other folks will add their security ideas. By no means am I an expert. I just read a lot & like to try programs out.

By the way, someone may already have posted this, but I couldn't find it by searching, so here's an interesting tidbit that some of you might find useful. Namely...

*I was reading THIS thread at the K-meleon forum about Win98 files - because Win98 & ME can use pretty much the same tweaks.

**That thread made mention of a WEBSITE that provides a patch for making certain updates to to the respective kernels of Win 98/ME.

***I downloaded & installed the stable version (0.2.0) of that patch. The patch automatically created backup and recovery files. It was a easy install & I haven't had any problems since doing it. Honestly, though, I'm not nearly savvy enough to test it out.

****They do have a beta of a more extensive patch, but I'm not willing to do beta stuff on WinME's kernel.

If the above links have been previously posted, I apologize in advance.

[aarhus2004]

Originally Posted by aarhus2004

I doubt this can be improved upon.

"Microsoft are hoping that updates for Win Me will continue to be available
for a year of more following Win Me dropping out of extended support on 11
July 2006. This should include the Windows Update site, the Windows
Update Catalogue and the Microsoft Download Centre although no guarantees
can be given.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows"

Cheers.

Ben.

And a little more:

1) Windows Updates for 9x - will be available for 12months minimum from 11th
July 2006
2) Windows Update Catalog for Win9x will be available for 12 months minimum
from 11th July 2006
3) Windows Updates will cease before the Catalog
4) Windows Updates Catalog for Win 9x will continue indefinitely - with NO
guarantees!!!! - until such time as MS decide that either a) not enough
people are making use of it - or b) they need to use the space for other [stuff].


Ben.

[aarhus2004]

Hello,

Re-naming "Recycle Bin" to something you prefer is easily done. Goto this website page:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-010

Download the registry patch zip (1kb) and, after extracting the contents to a file, choose the "add rename to..." click or double click on it and the context menu is changed accordingly.

Cheers.

Ben

[aarhus2004]

As per Belarc Advisor from here

Installed Microsoft Hotfixes [Back to Top]
DataAccess
Q329414-25 on 26/06/2006 (details...)
DirectX
KB904706 (details...)
Internet Explorer
SP1 (SP1)
Q833989 (details...)
Q837009 (details...)
Q887797 (details...)
Q916281 (details...)
Q918439 (details...)
Windows Media Player
WM308567 (details...)
WM320920.1 (details...)
WM828026 (details...)
WinME
UPD273017 (details...)
UPD273991 (details...)
UPD290700 (details...)
UPD323172 (details...)
UPD323255 (details...)
UPD329048 (details...)
UPD329115 (details...)
UPD811630 (details...)
UPD812709 (details...)
UPDQ823559 (details...)
UPD888113 (details...)
UPD891711 (details...)
UPD896358 (details...)
UPD908519 (details...)
UPD918547 (details...)


This I believe is the complete list with no more expected but depending on how we are to understand "extended support" see my post above here

I shall keep checking the WU site periodically but suspect "extended support" probably means MS has ceased it's interest in WinME - flaws, vulnerabilities yet to be discovered, and so on. No more updates I think. I hope.

Ben.

[aarhus2004]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5164450.stm

"Microsoft shuts down Windows 98"

and including:

"Products affected by closing down the support system include Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me (Millennium Edition). Analyst firm IDC believes that more than 70 million users will be hit by the change."

Welcome to the future. 6 years later!

Ben.

[ekim68]

I wonder how long hardware drivers will be available for Win9X? I better scoop a couple
of printers before too long.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/softwar...9262933,00.htm
I've been playing with this linux box for a while. I think I'll be using it more.

[ekim68]

And, it was only a matter of time for others to go along.
http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index...&eventid=27748

[watcher]

Just a note to say that I have used Windows ME since its inception, and am like alot of other ME users, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Seriously, wanted to thank you for the outstanding and profession job you have done on this Windows ME forum. Its super to know there is a place where a "end user" can go and get the real scoop and not have to dig through tons of "malicious nonsense" to find answers to problems and/or be enlightened by other ME users "sharing there knowledge." Again, thank you, and "well done."

[aarhus2004]

Welcome watcher to Tech Support Guy Forum. Your 'cool' words are most welcome. The actual forum for WinME, for the problems we users cannot solve, you will no doubt have found above. Believe me the guys and gals who really know computing in depth are always checking there in order to help.

But you are right WinME is not highly regarded by many folk for whom it wasn't their first system. And I will admit that Win2000 is a better system mainly because of its improved file system (NewTypeFileSystem) but I am content with my first investment.

I hope you will share your tips and tricks with us. The fact that they often apply to the systems of the last century as well is not important, and I have deliberately avoided saying they do (where applicable) just for fun.

So welcome once again.

Ben.

P.S. You have 1 post to your credit and a join date of July 2004 - is that correct?

[GoJoAGoGo]

[ekim68]

Originally Posted by aarhus2004

Welcome watcher

So welcome once again.

Ben.

P.S. You have 1 post to your credit and a join date of July 2004 - is that correct?

Wow, I couldn't do that... I talk too much...

[aarhus2004]

ekim68

"Wow, I couldn't do that... I talk too much..."

Mike, think of it as making music as you type!

Well ME Users now we know where our antiquated systems stand. And those of us who persist in using Internet Explorer and visiting those sites that the early Greeks were pleased to label pornographos, well now we know what may lie in waiting for us - the malicious take-over-and-use of our computers.

The net is all threat - seems. Well that's an exaggeration of course - Microsoft knows better and says the incidence of such threats is minimal - probably about 10% - my estimate not MS's - and that is also an exaggeration because it is based on an old, very old conceptual statistic, one which would have us believe that in any group of one hundred human beings ten will have distinctly anti-social tendancies. Of course those involved in this the very latest (and not the last - you can bet on it) threat must also have advanced computing skills. So the 10% can now be reduced by a considerable margin - say by 1 in 500 or, if preferred, 1/500 x 10 = .02%......! The other mitigating factors if applied mean we stand about the same chance of winning a lottery as we do of having our computers taken over.

Part of me thinks it might be fun to merit such attention. My sober friend's computer would still be functional and I could come to TSG with my woeful tale (posted in the Security forum) and receive some excellent advice. I read recently, in that particular forum, of a person with a computer so badly infected that the only advice worth the giving was to 'start over'. This means, of course, wipe the relevant hard drive (format it) and install afresh the operating system. BUT if you had TAKEN OVER my computer wouldn't that mean I had your complete attention? The act of my booting-up would be signalled to you and, ever alert, you and your nefarious practice of using all the resources of my computer could resume. Presumably I would be quite powerless, just a spectator at a game I couldn't understand, couldn't join-in. However I would have one option. I hope I would anyway. I could pull the plug from the wall socket. But what if I went off line? Sort of like slamming the phone down on a persistent and unwanted other. Cut you off? BUT supposing I didn't know you had taken over? What then? The mind boggles. Perhaps it has already happened. OMG. Is it possible, think-you, that TSG is merely a conduit to the FORCE? If so this post is merely an invitation for a take-over. I remember once pleading for a virus (aided and abetted I must add by a most respectable and respected fellow Forum member) and to no avail. But as those old Romans were wont to say, "Cum spiro, spero".

Ben.

[ekim68]

Hey Ben, don't be so serious..
There is life after Microso$ft...But, that being said, I'm communicating here now with
windows me...And it's doing just fine...

(And, got a few songs in the works.)

[lotuseclat79]

Security pros patch older Windows versions

Here.

-- Tom