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?"
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:07PM
jt (2890) wrote:
I'm in agreement with that.
Have considered this but when last I looked, the powershell I found available for what I have (XP-home/SP3) is limited, and I'd rather not add further entanglements to the windows environment... would make it even harder to transition away in the future.
That would be ideal. I'm familiar with the Unix command environment and have experience with bash, so I like that idea. Several years ago I found a bash implementation that ran under windows: win-bash [sourceforge.net] but it looks like it has not been maintained???
Does anyone here have experience with this? I'm curious as to how stable, solid, and compatible it is with what I'd find under the various distros out there.
I agree that would be the idea solution. I just re-downloaded win-bash and will play around with it a bit.
If anyone here has experience with other compatible shells they could recommend, I'd love to hear about it!
Thanks for the suggestions!
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