Thank you for the feedback FromTheRafters and I appreciate the debate.
Anyway, how do you explain the data from secunia.com and we can talk about
Mozilla Firefox, IE, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, etc. later if you would
like. smile

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13/


Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Vendor Microsoft

Product Link N/A

Affected By 32 Secunia advisories
21 Vulnerabilities

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Unpatched 9% (3 of 32 Secunia advisories)

Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows 98
Second Edition, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Less critical .


http://secunia.com/advisories/product/1/


Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Vendor Microsoft

Product Link View Here (Link to external site)

Affected By 182 Secunia advisories
165 Vulnerabilities

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Unpatched 12% (21 of 182 Secunia advisories)

Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Moderately critical .

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/22/

Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Vendor Microsoft

Product Link N/A

Affected By 219 Secunia advisories
202 Vulnerabilities

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Unpatched 14% (30 of 219 Secunia advisories)

Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows XP
Professional, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Moderately critical .

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13223/


Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Vendor Microsoft

Product Link View Here (Link to external site)

Affected By 40 Secunia advisories
63 Vulnerabilities

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Unpatched 8% (3 of 40 Secunia advisories)

Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows
Vista, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Less critical .


If users want to go with the best safety and security experience then you
can choose Ubuntu Linux but since this operating system cannot run as many
programs it cannot be the choice or at least the only choice for everyone but
technical users should at least try it out imo.

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18611/

Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Vendor Canonical Ltd.

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Affected By 37 Secunia advisories
107 Vulnerabilities

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Unpatched 0% (0 of 37 Secunia advisories)

Most Critical Unpatched
There are no unpatched Secunia advisories affecting this product, when all
vendor patches are applied..

Finally, the current DHS vulnerabilities for those who are interested. I
look forward to your future reply.

http://www.us-cert.gov/current/



"FromTheRafters" wrote:


"Dan" wrote in message
...
Thank you for your comments but Windows 98 Second Edition may be RIP for
some
people but not for me and I will continue to use it to go on-line and defy
the critics and naysayers and watch and wait and see when it truly fails
me
then it may be time to set my sights on something else

Fine. I'm not trying to talk you out of it, just trying to explain why
it is inevitable that it will go extinct.

but what truly can
beat the awesome operating system that survives an attack in September
2007
that annihilated the great Windows XP Professional operating system and 98
Second Edition responded with a Denial of Service Error to the attacker

The fact that Win98 was less affected by the attack has nothing to
do with the overall security of the involved systems. The attack was
likely not aimed at Win98's vulnerabilities.

unlike Windows XP Professional which just opened its doors to the attacker
after the APS Network was hacked and it made all the external security of
a
wired ethernet router, a software firewall and other protocols a joke
because
it just bypassed them.

Finally, a period to end a sentence. )

Now, I ask people to think do you want an operating
system that someone can just open up or do you want an operating system
that
truly belongs to you.

Now you are arguing for the other side - the people have obviously
made their choice in favor of dropping Win98 for that very reason.
Win98 is *less* secure than modern OSes. They can all be attacked
however.