Thanks for the report of your experience with WinXP running under Oracle VirtualBox. I was trying to warn about an installation of WinXP installed directly onto a bare computer connecting to the internet. - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Fractint [mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Multifrac@t-online.de Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2017 4:15 PM To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fractint build environment with XP under VirtualDisk On 20.08.2017 21:29, Harold Lane wrote:
If you install your copy of WinXP onto a bare machine by itself, you should not connect it to the internet, since WinXP has insufficient protection against today's malware and ransomware. Hal, I must contradict you here. Used VirtualXP with internet (Firefox) and email (Thunderbird) since a long time - without special proection - and I have not seen a single malware attack. But I suffered some blue screens and crashes since I installed the Creators Upgrade resulting from malware attacks, also severe hardware damages on my disks. I use Windows defender and Bitdefender with TrafficLight and Quickscan by bitdefender. But like I said, I avoid direct communication between VirtualXP and Win10. Albrecht
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