Re: 2004 -Microsoft drops 9x support

From: Robert Moir (bofh_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/16/03 

Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:14:48 -0000

Sarah wrote:
> So what does everyone think will be the effect of
> Microsoft's decision to drop support for Win 9x in 2004 on
> the flood of viruses? I'm wondering if that means that
> there will be enough systems running 9x that become
> infected because there won't be patches for new
> vulnerabilities, that it will create problems (traffic
> from DOS attempts or whatever) for the users of more
> current operating systems.

I think most virus writers already dropped 9x support.

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