On Mar 25, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
On 03/25/2014 04:50 PM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2014-03-25 21:41, Ed Gould pisze:
I have friends who bought a new PC and it came with windows 8. They
went out and bought a license for XP and installed XP.
People are doing this widespread as WINDOWS 8 (and 7 apparently) are
HATED.
And the relationship to the IBM-MAIN topic is ?
Maybe they are still using XP systems for TN3270 sessions to a
mainframe. Then keystroke capture malware on their un-maintained and
compromised XP systems could compromise mainframe logon security and
mainframe data.
Joel:
Thanks. I try not to pay attention to the rude types.
More to the point This seems to be a LOT of people doing this whether
it is wise or not (given the non support windows really doesn't have
is a whole off topic issue).
Ed
Personally, I will continue some usage of XP, but only for a few
stable
Windows applications that either do no network access or only very
specific limited Internet access, and even then no native XP
systems but
only under VirtualBox VMs running under Linux, where they are shielded
from outside abuse by Linux firewalls and only active when the
application is actually in use, and easily restored to a prior
state in
a couple of minutes. I actually even continue to run my
nicer-than-native-Linux, windows-only scanner support software under
Windows 2000 - because the app doesn't require anything recent and
Win2K
takes even less space and boot time under VirtualBox than Win XP.
Win 7
is a real resource hog by comparison, so it really makes no sense to
upgrade my virtual machines as long as leaner predecessors still
function for my limited usage.
I would, however, still consider it an unreasonable security risk
to use
a back-level, unsupported Windows system, even if isolated to a
virtual
machine, to connect to a production network or production mainframe
environment.
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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