Will M$FT now get rid of all the XP registration nonsense? I use XP on
my CNC boxes to run Mach3 and some other programs, it would be nice not
to have to go through all the registration just to use some boxes in the
garage. No internets or anything necessary for them so no NSA Heartbeats.
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XP end of life? Just listened to Gibson's Security Now podcast on this. His
opinion is that the OS is really pretty tight now after twelve years of
patches, security-wise, and the majority of exploits use software like Office
or the browser or another hole. Keep all the rest up to date, XP sh
> Greg wrote:
I'm late to the party here, but thought I'd add my comments anyway.
> I want to ditch XP
> 1.If I run XP in a virtualbox under Linux, does that provide the
> internet security I get with linux?
It depends - but typically no. VirtualBox guest has either
"raw" (bridged) access to t
What if he just disabled ports 80 and 443 on the VM? That way he would still
have network connectivity and not Internet for the most part.
The other suggestion would be to enable Windows firewall and block Internet
traffic.
Dan
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On Apr 7, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Dieselhead <126die.
3.If I were to run a dual boot instead, is there a simple way to enable
access to the network drive but disable internet access when booting into
XP?
TIA for any comments.
Greg
If you did a dual boot and just disabled the network card on the
devices window of XP, you should end up with
>From my limited Linux experience, the XP takes precedence, and Linux will
>offer no security in a virtual box. I would look at WINE or another
>interpreter that will allow you to run the software under Linux. Then you get
>all the goodness of Ubuntu, with the program you like. The apps are m
Hi all:
I have a ThinkPad T60 with XP set up in a docking station on the kitchen
counter. It is only really used for browser and Mastercook. The Mastercook
database is on a drive connected to the router, so all computers can access
it.
I want to ditch XP because of the security issues wit
