After getting an incredible virus on an XP-system, I set up a Progear Win98-system to do basic stuff with since at least with Win98 on a relatively slow system you'll generally notice if something is affecting the system. Surfing is slow though - I use K-Meleon for various reasons (it uses the OS toolkit instead of its own which sometimes improves performance on older systems since the tools tend to written for the newest computers). Then I found Adblock Plus, a free plug-in which at least works with K-Meleon and Firefox which blocks all the site banner ads and ads from loading and the old Progear-system works fine. I am curious though why I am having problems with Skype with older versions that work on other Win98SE's. Also, it doesn't seem that the Progear can handle streaming video under Win98. I see no reasons why it should be able to handle it -- loading and running big, full screen Windows Media videos which must be more demanding than the flash-format seem to perform OK. Any comments? As for the XP-virus, it prevents access to all the Ani-Virus sites, even forums and locks out the Task Manager (while weird processess run amok), even Microsoft's administrative functions couldn't restore it or any of the fix programs, except a really obscure one I found. None of the Virus-programs are able to block it as it seems. Fixing the problem is so round-about that it even baffles me with a background in the old big mainframe OS. One of the backdoors seems to be MP3-players, which might even, according to some article I read a while ago, come preloaded with it, i e the manufacturers don't even catch it. It hooks on to the Autorun-folder and replicate itself back to the host computer. If that is the source or simply carelessness in downloading some stuff I am not yet sure about. I would like to know if any of the other Progear-forum members have any experience with this?



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