Hi all. Thanks to all for the outpouring of advice and data. I am fully occupied this weekend with my 30th (?!?) anniv. high school reunion, a lot of housecleaning, and a couple of barbecues, so will have to digest it all later. I suppose the best thing to do would be to run a second computer for my legacy apps, but I don't have the space for it. For now I will have to deal with one system, config TBD. I think I will have to stick with Windows 98se, since when running under Windows (as opposed to a DOS boot) FractInt has some funny graphic quirks, my image format converter's memory access is very limited, and many games won't run. On a related topic, I am looking for advice on how to fix a specific problem related to the upgrade. Being unable to log on to Microsoft's site, I sent an e-mail to support but have heard nothing. When Explorer 6.0 crashes I get the following error: EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module MSVCRT.DLL at 0167:78015ca2. I checked into this when I was at work, and the DLL is related to Visual C++ as a check for writing data beyond allocated memory. It is for this reason that I believe this is a FAT issue. The automatic upgrade did not overwrite that DLL, probably because it was patched and the file in my C:\Windows\System folder is more recent than the upgrade. I have tried to manually extract the upgrade DLL from its 98se Upgrade Disk cabinet but Windows refuses, probably for the same reason. Thanks again, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 18:14 Subject: Re: [Fractint] Re: Mark and WinDoZe 98
John Wilson wrote:
Seems to me that placing any faith in out-of-date firewalls is quite a dangerous trick. You would rely on threat data weeks, or even months, old?
If you use the Pro version of ZoneAlarm, then there might be some validity your statements above. That is because it has a SPAM detector which does need constant updates, just like SpyBot, Ad-Aware, etc...
But the FREE version of ZoneAlarm that used to run on Windows-98, which recently (on 06/16/06) was no longer being upgraded, does not need constant "DAT" type files like the detectors of spyware and virus scanners.
The actual updates that came out with ZoneAlarm were very sparse, maybe once every 3 to 5 months on the average. The last one for the Win-98 version came out on 03/28/2006, before that it was on 11/22/2005.
Therefore, the firewall still has its uses on older Windows systems.
Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
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