Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

Dev.SN ♥ developers

Keeping XP Secure

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 05 2014, @03:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the unplugging-the-network-cable dept.

Appalbarry writes:

"Microsoft is about to abandon Windows XP to the wolves. Fair enough it's ancient. However, there are still going to be a lot of XP boxes out there, and a fair number of them are unlikely to ever get upgraded until the hardware dies.

My question is: what's available to help make this old OS stay reasonably secure and safe for the people who can't or won't abandon it?

Over the years I've been through Central Point Antivirus, Norton, McAfee, AVG, stuff like Zone Alarm, and of course the various Microsoft anti-malware offerings. But since moving over to Linux I really haven't kept up on the wild and wonderful world of Windows security tools.

Suggestions?"

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Keeping XP Secure | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 1000 moderator points   | 73 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1) by fotonix on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:39PM

    by fotonix (2922) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:39PM (#11533)

    This is the setup that has worked 80% for me. I dodged the Vista fiasco, didn't like 7 too much, and Win 8 confirmed a new path, away from windows. I moved to Linux and have XP in a VirtualBox VM. It has no internet / network and is certainly never used for any browsing. I run a few legacy apps for photo work.

    But I said 80%.... in the 20% is some paid-for panoramic software that others claim to have working perfectly in a VM. But not mine. Not my VM. I've had one other application do the same - it starts and vanishes. No log, no error, nothing.

    --
    Over-thought solutions get over-engineered and miss the user's requirements.