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, Informative) by TK on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:44PM
I have a similar situation with computers running Windows 2000 (and soon the XP ones too), I've taken the first step by taking them off the network, but just in case they catch something from a filthy flash drive (or floppy, in some cases), I've backed the drives up in a raw format with DriveImage XML.
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm [runtime.org]
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