Posted on 10/10/2013 4:46:21 PM PDT by Slump Tester
The majority of online identity thefts and PC security breaches occur from malware and adware nowadays. Virus detection suites are becoming passé. You could have a full complement of protective measures in place, and one errant click in an email could send every last piece of personal data across the wire or could install a program to track you keystrokes.
Everyone needs to understand that viruses are not the only vectors for PC violations. Having an OS with a bad kernel, which is essentially what you have with XP, leaves you susceptible to kernel-mode and driver attacks that no virus scanning program will detect.
You could just do a virtual XP machine on your W7 box. That’s so easy >> I << do it.
That's why I was installing XP. What I'm doing (since I got the problem fixed), is R-consoling over to a windows 8 box running XP in Virtualbox. I've been using VMware, but the cheese system I have 8 on won't run it.
Now my 7 box can have all 4 cores to itself.
Good! ;)
None, I prefer remote access to a real box if possible. lol
Hardware is so cheap now that it just doesn't make sense for what I do, which at some point involves communicating between boxes anyway. But it does beat having to get out of my favorite chair and go work in the computer room. :)
Then I installed a security update for IE8 (IE8-WindowsXP-KB2618444-x86-ENU), rebooted and now the update seems to be working.
Thanks for the update. I got word that both IE8 and Chrome are crashing on the box I reinstalled XP on a few weeks back. Will tell them to bring it by and let me take a look. Virtual XP mode is working fine on my Windows 7 laptop.
I can't find the page again but I found a fix that made it update.
Make sure automatic updates is turned on, then go to the run box and bring up a command promt. Type wuauclt /detectnow, and wait about an hour. (I closed the command prompt and went to bed and left it sit.) The next morning, it had rebooted and I had about 140 updates.
If I get bored today, I'll toss another drive in and try this without installing IE8 just to see if it works that way.
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