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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
Yes, it can still be attacked, using a web browser (or anything else, really) on a seemingly secure device on the same network as a proxy of sorts. There’s a lengthy paper on this method. As it ...
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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
I'm going to dissent from the other posts and say you have covered - or at least touched on most of the attack vectors you need to worry about for an XP system.
In other words, if you very much ...
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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
You currently have no secure way to download/install any software on XP. Computers is pointless without software.
But with an old OS like XP, it doesn't support the latest version of TLS. There has ...
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Can Windows XP be run on an SSD as a VMWare guest OS?
if you're operating system supports trim, which they all just about do these days, you can install Windows XP as a virtual machine guest
I'd say that's mostly a false claim (I mean for the fact that ...
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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
I am going to have a go at answering my own question - Just to summarize the great info in other answers. If anyone disagrees with me, or wants to add something please do!
Windows XP should not be ...
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Can Windows XP be run on an SSD as a VMWare guest OS?
you're operating system supports trim, which they all just about do these days, you can install Windows XP as a virtual machine guest.
This depends on your virtual disk configuration.
If you're using ...
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Can Windows XP be run on an SSD as a VMWare guest OS?
SSD's will wear. SSD's will do wear-leveling regardless. TRIM is simply a means to reduce wear and make wear-leveling more efficient. TRIM is only one method, over-provisioning another. If we're ...
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boot.ini, boot from primary partitions after extended partition
There's several issues / factors you can consider.
1. 1024 cylinder issue.
During the bootstrap process, Windows NT 4.0 uses INT13 BIOS functions
to access the drive. The INT13 functions have a ...
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Why can some HKLM entries be read on 64-bit PCs but some cannot from VB6
You have encountered the
Registry Redirector :
The registry redirector isolates 32-bit and 64-bit applications by providing separate logical views of certain portions of the registry on WOW64. The ...
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Windows XP "Base System Device"
From the vendor ID (197B) and the device ID (2382) it would appear that this device is a JMicron JMB38x SD/MMC PCIe card reader. You can find this information easily for most devices by just putting ...
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How do I know what proxy server I'm using?
Just to clear up some confusion about proxies in windows that i had when reading all kind of blogs and answers on stack overflow:
There are 2 different proxy settings: WinHTTP and WinINET
Depending ...
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Win XP HDD's ownership rights were ruined after using "Take Ownership" from another computer
Once file permissions are broken inside a user's profile it is close to impossible to correct them. While it may be possible to go through common folders and find and set the correct permissions, any ...
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Use SMB2 or SMB3 in Windows XP?
Is there any third party software to enable SMB 2 or 3 on XP?
In theory it might be possible to run Samba (the Linux SMB server) via Cygwin and turn XP into a SMB2 server, but I suspect it will be ...
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How do you use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to Remmina?
Remmina is just a Remote Desktop client (RDP), i.e., viewer. It allows connection only from a user on Linux to control a RDP server on another PC. Think of Remmina as a desktop browser, as Firefox or ...
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how can I install and operate printers etc that must run on win xp 32bit, on win7 ult 64bit laptop?
What printer? I am running all my old printers as "generic" printers now. Postscript, PCL and text are all truly generic -- you can use any printer driver to print with any printer -- and ...
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Run software intended for Windows XP on Windows 10 - Software requires GPIB card
Since the software will not install / run in Windows 10 (not much XP software will), then your options are limited. XP will not run on a modern machine.
Use a good Virtual Machine App (I use VMware), ...
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Why cant windows xp installer, either 32 or 64 but, detect my IDE drives. No SATA
The ASUS P5LD2 motherboard has an old RAID feature that does require drivers (for Windows XP) indeed: https://www.asus.com/br/supportonly/p5ld2/helpdesk_download/
Those drivers AREN'T required for ...
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need to replace my old Dell Vostro l/top with a S/H one, older software I run will only work on Windows XPSP3 - will the newer I5 processors run XP
will the newer I5 processors run XP
Very most likely not (greater than 95% if not 100%).
Your only choice here is to run XP as a Virtual Machine.
I use VMware Workstation Pro V17 and have and XP Pro ...
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Recovering a Windows XP machine broken by trying to install pcANYWHERE 8.0
Choose "Last Know Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked)" instead of "Safe Mode" in the F8 menu.
If you're expecting auto-login and get an enterprise-style ...
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USB passthrough doesn't work in VirtualBox
SOLVED.
There is some quackery afoot with virtualbox, and users/user account(s?).
Solution is this:
sudo adduser $USER vboxusers
won't work for some reason ( but do it, in case it's needed for ...
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Can Windows XP be run on an SSD as a VMWare guest OS?
Just run it. No virtual machine, it won't help. There isn't a big issue — you're never required to use TRIM for a drive to work. Doing so is beneficial for performance and slightly beneficial for ...
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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
Let's assume that the following hold:
the box has either the embedded firewall or a third party software firewall installed that disallows all incoming access,
on the LAN router NAT is enabled, UPnP ...
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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
I note that the usage case is running ancient software to control ancient but still valuable hardware. IMO the only good reason for keeping ancient OSes alive.
The answer is a strict network block on ...
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I get "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with [name of time server]." when trying to automatically synchronise PC time
Was having this problem with a windows 11 ARM virtual machine as VMware tools does not keep the time up to date. Run this batch script on login to fix the time from the internet.
REM Use PowerShell ...
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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
Is, and how is, this box still a security concern?
Windows XP has little built-in security and what is there is still substandard in today's terms.
So is it still insecure? Yes. Anything that can ...
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Windows XP checks disk twice and then gets a MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION
Before doing anything else, stop booting or using the HDD in the PC. If there is damage to the file system, each time the disk is mounted and accessed, more damage is done, making it more difficult to ...
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Windows XP - screen turns off after X time
Use a third-party tool such as Caffeine, Don't Sleep or an alternative. They generally act by simulating a keypress or reporting a very important task that cannot be interrupted. Of course, check that ...
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Struggling to get Windows XP to boot after recovering from HDD damage
Make sure you have a backup of this drive before proceeding. Do not rely on being able to clone the previous drive again.
Start by running chkdsk on the drive on another computer. It may take a couple ...
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Make a System Image of an Old Windows Computer as a VHD file
An alternative option is to use SysInternals Disk2VHD, and create a VHD image of the drive (assuming the system is a single drive). You can then mount this VHD using something like Virtual Box.
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Migrate an existing installation of WinXP to new hardware
Here is my method for moving XP HDD to another computer in an industrial environnement :
move your hard drive to new PC XP compatible (BIOS ACPI, if not, BSOD with acpi error) OR restore image from ...
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