Does anyone on Sup Forums still use Windows XP?

Does anyone on Sup Forums still use Windows XP?

How have you not gotten a virus yet?

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buy using antivirus you literal retard and not being a literal retard like you

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I installed it in a virtual machine to use AutoCAD 2007 and works fine desu

>How have you not gotten a virus yet?
Don't use XP for driver-reasons but common_sense_2017.exe works fine on any version of Windows desu.

>using anything before windows 10
>2017

i have been using it for 2 years now
No Malware yet

I use it on my netbooks
it's been fine because I don't do anything stupid

Computers at work run some pre SP3 version of XP for some "legacy" printing software. Not even in a VM so I have no idea how they have managed to keep everything up and running for so long.

Used XP up to 2014
>How have you not gotten a virus yet?
By not being a complete retard

by not opening nigerian princes' emails or clicking in dick enlargers ads

i have it on a mini computer for fucking around but that is it

I do on my t430
its fine

Sure

That's good. Wanacry could've hit you if you were unlucky.

My dad used XP all the way up to last year

I use POSReady 2009
>How have you not gotten a virus yet?
Well for one I'm not a dumbass. Second of all, I still get security updates for two more years.

Yep, on my T42, shitpost with it every day
Viruses dont just happen randomly, you get them from doing dumb shit
So i dont do dumb shit and i dont get viruses

And even if i did get viruses, im competent enough to remove them

By using an antivirus and not pirating stuff, duh.

by using POSReady 2009 updates

fuck how do you even use XP in 2017
when I installed it a few months ago it was so HARD to even connect to the internet

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>it was so HARD to even connect to the internet
This isn't an issue for people with triple or even double digit IQs

uucjk injternet explorer 6 was a nightmare man swear

The only thing you should be using that for is to download a better browser.

how?
XP has a built in TCP/IP stack. Should get a DHCP addr automatically?

Pretty sure IE8 or 9 works on it. Chrome, Firefox and Opera all have semi-recent versions out for it.

Sounds like ur dum

drivers didn't download automatically
fuck I thought XP did that

I tried Opera, and got BSOD'd
holy shit I thought I'd lose this laptop forever
tahkn god Windows 10 is still free

XP's IE is so outdated many websites simply reject it. Chrome has dropped XP support. Opera and Firefox work fine though.

Firefox should have an ESR for xp. I remember seeing something like Firefox 53 running on xp.

I have no idea for how long it will be supported, though.

I've been using xp since 2008 and I use thus specialised hardware known as the brain. It runs the common sense antivirus and I have never gotten an infection. The only downsides is that not many people have an enough powerfull brain to run this software

>1.5 gb hard drive req
I'm mad jelly right now not gonna lie

Modern viruses won't work on older operating systems. Feels comfy. :)

where did you get the drive by download clairvoyance module for common sense?

Not him but he problem is even getting to a site to DL a new browser. I was able to connect by DLing one on another computer and transferring it with a USB drive.

I remember having the same problem when I installed vista in 2015 from manufacturer's disk. I had to download Firefox to download Chrome, because ie7 (I don't remeber the exact version) would refuse to show Chrome's download site.

yeah I had to do exactly this too many features lacking that I need, though
I'll stick with 7
though maybe I should get Vista since 7 runs my hard drive so dam hot and fast

I still use it

have never gotten any virus (that I know of). I store nothing of value on my boot drive and everything else on external drives that are rarely connected (only at backup time, and disconnected from the internet).I reformat from time to time, so I don't worry too much about non-firmware stealth infections.

I use POSReady 09 and get all the latest updates. I don't use antivirus. but I have lots of ports and services disabled. notably 135, 443, 445 (TCP and UDP), and 137-139 are all closed. I regularly watch task manager and look at my port connections and the event viewer.

I am trying to transition to linux, but none of the few introductory distros I tried have the low RAM usage or speed of my (very customized) XP setup, and I haven't figured out how to fine-tune the controls like on Windows yet.

I started using XP in 2010 because windows 2000 support was dropped lol (ironically I bought XP in 2003)

pic somewhat related. just a virtual machine, but on my real setup, I get about ~180MB of RAM use at boot, and I have more programs than just the basics in the VM

My DAW sitting in storage is running XP SP3.

I have an even older machine I use strictly as a sequencer for my small collection of hardware synths and whatnot that runs Win98SE in storage.

Why? 'Cause it fuckin works. The XP machine runs an older version of ProTools that isn't compatible with anything other than XP (PTMP 7.3) and I refuse to fall into Digidesign/AVID's Jew-trap of constantly having to pay for upgrades. I'd rather continue to use something that works perfectly fine than to pay for "upgrades" that don't give me anything that I'll actually use.

you mention a type of problem I hadn't foreseen. when I format my system, I have everything ready on my D: partition for installation (essential microsoft software, drivers, and all other software)
I suppose if I couldn't get on the internet, I'd use a linux USB or live CD to download firefox and network drivers, and copy them back on the XP drive. from those you can get everything else. the other option is sneakernet like said. use another computer and copy to USB.


ie8 is the latest, but you really shouldn't use it for anything except getting windows updates up and running (updates.microsoft.com)
chrome has been dropped after 49, so you shouldn't use that.
the only browser left is firefox 52 ESR, but I will acknowledge it's starting to become bad (doesn't seem to be just on XP either...)
dunno about Opera


what kind of connection do you use? XP has lots of options. dial-up, always-on LAN (DHCP network - usually works for cable, DSL, fiber), PPPoE DSL, and a couple other I think.

I run it in KVM with a real GPU and it works great. Shame about the browsers dropping it and the ESR has only a few months left. I would have hoped it would hold out till the POSready updates stopped but what can I expect really.

I ran XP64 a while ago too but switched back to 32bit as XP64 is stone dead and has no security updates anymore.

lubuntu / xubuntu = low resource

Not getting a virus on xp isn't hard if you aren't a moron.

That being said anything I have old enough to be in xp has been switched over to linux.

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>Does anyone on Sup Forums still use Windows XP?
Yes, I'm using it right now.

>How have you not gotten a virus yet?
By not being a fucking retard, like you clearly are.

Enjoy antivirus eating up your 2GB of Ram.
Oh yeah I'm the retard.

I have an old laptop that I only use for fixing my car. Works fine, just stay on safe sites.

How does one get a Windows XP image in 2017?
I worry if torrents have bullshit baked into the ISO, is there an offical download from microsoft?

>XP

If you're going to use Windows, use Windows 10. If you're still using Windows 7, you're retarded

It's easy, just use FTP. Even IE6 supports that.

You can download POSReady 2009 from microsoft.com

>telling people to use Windows 10
>calling others retarded

Thank you. how does POSReady 2009 differ from plain windows XP?

It's XP for cash registers with the installer redone like Vista's, and it lets you select individual components to install when you're setting it up (like if you created a custom XP image with nLite), plus it still gets security updates for the next couple years.

Alright sweet, thank you!

lol no Windows 10 is AIDS

>tfw own two (2) copies
jif rel

>what kind of connection do you use?
to clarify it wasn't about the connection
I put XP on this XP-era laptop and I had zero (0) drivers to use it properly
that time the WiFi was on the first floor and I stayed up on the fourth, so I had to keep going back and forth with my other laptop to get everything

with 3 gb of ram this thing's buttery smooth on XP
shame about the internet support
you can really feel it's half past dead

i have a laptop that i paid $5 for and i use it to simply play starcraft

>being too dumb to manually install drivers

just a rock I tripped on don't misread me :|

I was unironically using XP well into the end of 2015
The shit I wanted to do finally hit the limit so I had to move to 64 bit w7

I keep an old Dell XP machine going at work. It has a couple thousand dollars' worth of software (specifically TOAD and BarTender) that the assholes who bought us say is too expensive to replace unless you are a DBA or work in the department that designs our product labels. I did the POSReady registry hack thing, but Windows Update can run all weekend and is still going when I get into the office Monday morning.

Dell Inspiron 9300 reports in

Win XP of course
17" 1440x900
Pentium M 770 2,13GHz (fuckyea)
2GB DDR2
Radeon X300 128MB @ ~120% OC

Surprisingly good for daily Internet browsing

what did you do to close port 135?

there's 2 ways

1. the easy way. get dcombobulator from grc, click on the dcombobulate me tab, then disable dcom and reboot.
grc.com/freeware/dcom.htm

2. the hard way
follow the steps at the bottom of
updatexp.com/dcom-windows-xp.html

3. anything else you should know?
I occasionally get the "DCOM got error: The service cannot be started" blah blah blah" in event viewer. it happens at boot time, and only when I connect new hard drives (and again, just sometimes). this does not slow boot or anything. when I look up the GUID of the error message in the registry, it's upnp, which is weird because it's already disabled, and what does it have to do with hard drives anyway? other than that, disabling DCOM has been inconsequential for me (nothing slowed down).

PS: if you're going to do it the hard way, you can skip step 1. the instructions were written back before SP2 I believe, so the KB patch's already included or superseded in SP2 and SP3

>2017
>using XP
only for testing stuff
t. inux user

wrong answer...
you disable all network services, USB autoruns, etc. to get a secure XP install.
or (you can make your "normal" XP install become a "POSReady" one. google it)

> How have you not gotten a virus yet?

The only reason, period, that people get viruses is because they download and execute untrusted applications on their computer.
Alternatively allow other people to execute untrusted software on, or insert untrusted devices into, their computer.

If you run only trusted software, execute everything untrusted in a contained VM, and make sure your portable drives aren't inserted into aids-ridden computers, you are 100% safe. Add to that a decent anti-malware solution, and a software firewall, and you are good to go.

Only idiots, or smart people doing idiotic things, gets viruses.
And every single time it happens, they deserved it.

>what is wannacry
>what are smb vulns

>running a samba server facing public internet

>samba server
I don't think a Samba server would be vulnerable. Having an open network share or just a machine on a network that opens SMB ports to the Internet would cause the problem.

I use it on my backup backup laptop. C2D and 2GB of RAM is enough to read the news, check email, watch videos, and use Sup Forums. It's pretty gud.

>what are worms and not viruses

>The only reason[s] [...] that people get viruses is because they download and execute untrusted applications on their computer
> or insert untrusted devices [...]

that may have been true before the turn of the millenium

there's something called exploits that don't require any user intervention. most exploits use specially malformatted data* and know the way a bug in a program will misinterpret/mis-parse that data in such a way as to crash it or make it run code of the attacker's choosing. that's how a lot of browser (or browser plug-in like java or flash) exploits infect users. usually an attacker will hijack a webpage (favorites are ad servers) and insert their code into the page

the internet is constantly bombarded with malicious packets with embedded exploits. unpatched machines are very vulnerable.

*the malformatted data is often specific to the application. for example an exploit for firefox wouldn't run on chrome or ie, etc. in theory you could even put malformatted images or video to crash a specific image viewer or video player, but those aren't often seen. that's why you see VLC security updates (you were probably like whaaat? a video player?)