Classic British Flight Sim

Indeed mate.. they all have equal amounts of 'vulnerabilities' as far as I can see.. it's just that the older OS has more well known ones! My experience over OS's from Win3 up is that hackers will move onto the newest version as there's more kudos and it's more of a challenge

I've just switched my Win7 Ultimate pc on for the first time in a week and it immediately made something like 39700 registry entries from the last update. I looked down at the systray and it was downloading yet more updates I also have a yellow MSE box showing my system is 'potentially' unprotected as I've not run a quick scan for a week. I've not had the pc turned ON for a week!

I think it's a conspiracy to kill off PC's entirely and move us all on to tablets.. not that that's gonna happen until they release one with a 17" screen

ATB
DaveB

Thats until the hackers decide to attack Androids & IPads......Or even Ubuntu?
Keith

I believe the Android OS is already susceptible to virus attack so whatever we use, some moron will try their best to spoil our day

ATB
DaveB

As SWMBO had started grumbling about the amount of time I was using her netbook (and why perchance had she thought she got it?), I recently picked up a Dell 420 with XP from Morgan Computers.

If MS did not make each new OS more of a system hog than the previous one they would sell more, and never mind the mark up in cost relative to the price they charge manufacturers. Anyway I have some old programmes that will not run on my work 64 bit laptop, so the ultrabook covers running them along with web browsing at home. It's half the price of a notebook but build quality is in a different league. Being second hand the cover is a tad scratched and scruffy, but then I bought it for use not decoration.

As the ultrabook came with more HD space than advertised, I tried loading a vanilla FS9 for basic route planning etc and was surprised to find it running in a basic if primitive fashion. The basic directory size also points out how bloated my other installations are.

Now it just needs some low frame rate British classics to civilise it.

While on the side line of Morgan I picked up a 19" 4:3 ratio flat screen some months ago which has let me revive an old Compaq FS9 machine for when the family get in the way on the main PC. It's loaded with XP too, but as it is disconnected from the net that's not an issue. The service from Morgan was great for both purchases.

Dev One wrote:Thats until the hackers decide to attack Androids & IPads......Or even Ubuntu?
Keith

I always giggle (unhelpfully, I know ) when somebody mentions Ubuntu.

It sounds like a dreadful massacre from the zulu wars.

"Hackers to the South West! Thousands of 'em!"

http://youtu.be/ODM1RJe4FvQ

Sorry...

Ian

speedbird591 wrote:

Dev One wrote:Thats until the hackers decide to attack Androids & IPads......Or even Ubuntu?
Keith

I always giggle (unhelpfully, I know ) when somebody mentions Ubuntu.

It sounds like a dreadful massacre from the zulu wars.

"Hackers to the South West! Thousands of 'em!"

http://youtu.be/ODM1RJe4FvQ

Sorry...

Ian

Don't laugh too hard, that's what our little forum runs on!