On 10/22/2016 01:36 PM, Ali wrote: >>> I didn't think modern A/V products included complete historical sets >>> of signatures. I >> >> I would certainly expect them to, yes! > > Just wondering are you guys not running AV SW on your old HW? I personally > run period specific AV SW on my older machines. Granted I have mostly IBM > 51xx series machines and later Macs so AV SW is easier to find. > If its a PC and running M$ it has it... I don't collect them but have a few oldies for the utility they present. Even the mainstay PCs in use are linux based. For those times I need winders VMware/Openbox virtualization keeps it well contained.
The rest of the hardware is DEC PDP-8f, Qbus PDP11s (11/03 through 11/73) and Qbus VAX plus 3100series. The S100 gear runs CP/M as do the 8080/8085/z80 SBCs so no risk there the remainder are odd things like IMSAI 3035 control computer Ti9900, 6502 and others that virus/trogans mean nothing. I can't Imagine malware for my AmproLB+ or Kaypro4/84 would look like. In general if its not internet connected its very low risk and if it can't run M$ OS on intel its even less risk. When I find a bug using the PDP-11 running RT11 or the Vax running VMS makes it really easy to dissect the code without worry of it escaping. For those times I wish to visit a site that is flagged as dropping malware using an expendable virtual machine (copy of one) has proven both safe and handy. Allison
