Oh, by the way, your claim about the XP boxes running without reboot for a year? That means you’re at least a year behind on your updates... and it means that if I can get your IP address, I can own both of them with just a few commands.
Congratulations, you just advertised to the world that your XP boxes are wide open for net raping.
Good luck getting to them. I know they aren’t updated, but what they’re working on, I don’t want them to be. The simulations they’re running will be changed in a few months. Maybe I’ll update them then, but right now, they’re chugging along without incident. Why mess with a working configuration?
I’m 100% confident that no one is going to get to them behind the firewall, I only turn on the wireless to FTP some data files once or twice a week. If you can get there, I’ll give you one of them when this job is over ; )