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I still use Win98 daily for gaming and love it, fight me.

• jedberg 7y ago
  The last patch for Win98 was in 2013. I really hope you don't put that thing on the internet.
  • AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    Who cares? If it is just for gaming, then if it gets infected it isn't going to compromise anything important.
    • jedberg 7y ago
      The most common infection is the one where they turn your computer into a node of a botnet. From there it can consume your bandwidth, launch attacks on other people, or be used to distribute files, such as child porn. Do you want to be implicated in a child porn ring, and have the evidence sitting right on your computer?
      • AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
        Chances are said Win98 box is off when not in use, and it is very unlikely that there is much of that kind of malware targeting Win98 anyway since it has a nigh-0% install base. What does actually run on it is probably going to be noticed because it's probably running on period hardware and the resource usage will not be nearly so negligible as it is today.
  • tus88 7y ago
    It doesn't have any connection to a network of any kind. I mainly copy stuff over on USB. GOG games don't install on Win98, but if you install them on XP you can often just copy the directory across.