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on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:30AM
from the unplugging-the-network-cable dept.
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?"
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(Score: 1) by etherscythe on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:55PM
Might be helpful to see exactly what you're doing with them. Much of the command structure is the same from XP to 7 (if anything there are more options now). You can even port to Bash by taking the commands that Linux does not have and simply making an alias to the rough equivalent (DIR>LS for example) in many cases, depending how complex it is.
I wrote a script, for example, that allows me to use OEM activation certificates and SLP keys to activate Windows XP, Vista and 7 on client computers with a fresh reload. It works pretty universally across all of them except where the back-end activation (SLMGR) does not exist on certain platforms (XP). I converted it to an EXE file, but that was mainly for ease of including all the certificate files into an easy, uncluttered format (single .exe file rather than dozens of xrm-ms files and a few bat files).
If nothing else, there is DOSBox, which I even have running on my N900.
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(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday March 06 2014, @01:33PM
etherscythe (937) wrote:
Fantastic point! And probably no simple answer. To complicate matters, over the years I've installed several Unix command utilities and have integrated these into my batch programs, too. I tried cygwin but the install broke and messed up my system. Then I found GNU coreutils, fsutils, and updates to them. Then discovered GnuWin32. Still later found ezwinports. So I've got quite the frankenstein environment there. Have not yet found a stable command-line shell (like bash) that I could run things with, so just kept plugging along with CMD.EXE, such as it is.
I'm open to suggestions for a stable port of, say, bash that I could migrate over to on windows, and then run them *unchanged* on a linux host. It's been a while since I looked and am hoping the community here my be able to offer recommendations.
Never tried DOSBox; sounds interesting! OTOH, I've turned on command extensions and take advantage of them in many places. I've used PC/MS DOS since version 3.0, so I'm sure I could adapt, eventually, but would like to know how far its support goes to emulating what I've got now.
I'm interested in people's experiences and pointers.
Thanks so much for the feedback!
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