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[Virus Guy]

| Windows 98/se, as installed using it's default installation
| settings, is not (and was not) vulnerable to network-based
| exploits (worms | mostly) like NT, 2K and XP were,

Not 100% true.

For TCP ports 135 and 445 - yes.

However Win9x/ME was very vulnerable to worms using NetBIOS over
IP as infection vectors.

The default installation settings for win-98 did not include printer
or file-sharing turned on (while on the contrary XP's default setting
WAS to have file sharing turned on).

Also note that Win-98 was not vulnerable to Welchia or Blaster.

The BugBear comes to mind as well as Baloon
and Netlog worms.

Again, they wouldn't be able to infect a default installation of
Win-98/se - even a virgin install (no patches or updates applied to
it).

Also note that it was quite common to use NetBEUI (not TCP/IP) for
file sharing on SOHO networks back when '98 was popular, so again
there was an added layer of protection in the event that file sharing
was turned on.

 

[James Egan]

No point. There was nothing of value there the first time. You're
obviously a newbie and a troll.

That was obvious from the outset.


Jim.

 

[Lord Turkey Cough]

That was obvious from the outset.

Oh was it? What a clever little troll we are aren't we?
Mommy must be right proud of you.

 

[Ant]

That was obvious from the outset.

A very poor performance ending up with IKYABWAI lameness.

 

[Lord Turkey Cough]

A very poor performance ending up with IKYABWAI lameness.

And lets face it nobody but a hardcore troll would use term IKYABWAI.