Yeah, running an old windows box connected to a network means that eventually someone is going to go online, which means either paying for some goofy security software and or tech time or certain disaster.
Not anxious to put all of our financial transactions into the public domain!
Not anxious to put all of our financial transactions into the public domain!
Something like that is a great candidate for virtualization. You can make the VM have host-only networking so the only 'network' it can see is the local host it is running on.
One of the really cool things about running a VM is that you can fire it up, do some work, then 'suspend' it to disk. If that disk space is on a shared network drive within your office, you can resume it from another workstation, and be right where you left off. It also makes the image insanely easy to back up.