Windows XP is good but no fun without internet. How do I connect it to the internet safely?
>>106644850You don't.For real, best you can do is firewall out the ass before ever reaching the device with XP on it, and disable every network service you can get away with.
>>106644850Just do it, you'll be fine. It's mostly a meme, nobody gives a shit about such an old OS and even old malware is outdated.
>>106644931There are constant probes out there looking for Windows XP. Old malware still works, y'know?
OP here, I will add that I used a Wifi 4 USB adapter and a mobile hotspot on my cell to connect to the internet "securely" before I broke my phone. Should I have done this?
>>106644850Been running XP different machines even after it got discounted to this day, networked and online, no problems as long as you're not retarded yourself, but that applies to current OSes too.
>>106644969should probably be behind a routers firewall at least
>>106644982If I were you I would turn on ClearType.>>106644993What is that
>>106645014>If I were you I would turn on ClearType.Why should I?
>>106644944>you must update to the latest zog os or you are in constant dangeroh really? prove it
where does this meme of old Windows being virus infected as soon as you connect to the internet even come from
>>106645033To read text better on LCD panels>>106645045There are windows xp probes that want to turn your PC into a zombie. It's true. If you don't want to use jewish software use Linux.
>>106645068>LCD panelsExactly
>>106645080Your monitor looks like an LCD to me. If it's a CRT, at least enable grayscale font smoothing.
>>106645131>If it's a CRTIt is. >at least enable grayscale font smoothingNo need, it looks perfect like it is on that screen and that resolution. You won't see it looking at the picture on your panel.
>>106644850>>106645067ancientfag here:in the original version of windows xp, anyone could basically connect to your machine by knowing your ip address, they could freely send you packets and commands and do all kinds of retarded shit because in the high trust boomer society, the idea of cyber crime was unheard of. Firewalls were third party programs you downloaded seperately, and so were virus and malware scanners. People didnt even use routers back then, you just directly connected your computer to your modem. This was the time before windefender and win firewall and other forms of innate network protection people take for granted. Web browsers were not sandboxed and they ran js all day.Cybercrime was basically unheard until thirdies were allowed online. After the glowies got into a pissing contest with the jews and muslims, there was malware worms spreading all over the net as they jerked each other off exploiting the most basic bitch of security vulnerabilities. Later on, these obvious security flaws were patched in winxp and it became common knowledge that you didnt 'connect xp without updating first' to prevent the spread of these government worms. But over time, this some how got distorted into 'you never connect xp to the internet at all :((' by the updoot cult that always wants you to use the latest opperating system.Think about it logically. Steam supported windows xp until like 2018, that means people were connecting to the internet in 2018 just fine on completely normally updooted xp. If you find some ancient xp disk, you're gonna want to some how update it to the latest microsoft standards to cover up these ancient malware loopholes, and manually install a firewall and various malware/anti-virus softwware. The real problem here, is that lots of the xp era programs that were made by boomer companies were later bought up by thirdies and turned into literal malware distributors as the boomers running those companies retired so gl.
>>106645186you're not an ancientfag, you're a zoomer and a regular faggotviruses were a problem as soon as networking computers was a thing and there was a shitton of them circulating in the early 90s already change your fucking diaper zoomie I heard you guys are into that shit big time
>>106645186I thought fossils knew not to use reddit spacing
>>106645204>sar, you are not old do the needful because of the virus sarshut up daleet. virus written in the90s would typically do silly shit like flash text on your screen, change your web browser's search engine, force you to read advertisements and maybe bluescreen you. they didnt try to steal your social security number and rape your family so a forigner could steal your identity like they do today.>>106645237its called a paragraph, you commoncore brainrotted zoomer.
>>106644850Just like you would connect any other operating system. Your computer is always firewalled by default with your ISPs router, therefore random 13yo dalit with kali troonix can't hack you because xhe has no attack surface. The rest is just about not downloading malicious executables from the internet, the same way as if you used windows 10 or 11. Security updates don't matter if you are not retarded.>>106644926>>106644944>>106645068>>106645186why would you lie so hard on the internet, streetshitting subhuman microsoft shill?
>>106645186XP is swiss cheese when it comes to security. It can be pwned in five minutes now a days because it's so riddled with holes that unless you a exceptional pro (and even then) at hardening systems and putting it behind fifty ~~proxies~~ firewalls, it's going to get pwned.It's not an "updooter" thing, it's a fucking fact. MS had no security beyond UAC for XP.
>>106645237forced meme. just like Q. watched it happen
>>106645373The fuck are you on about? Reddit spacing is real and a plague, it irritates the hell out of me.
>>106644850Windows is not really meant to be connected to the internet.
>>106645175why we ever got rid of CRTs is beyond me
>>106645391How do you post on 4kins then
>>106645033How do you guys use these PCs in 2025?
>>106645366>>106645391>SAAAAAAR!!! DO NOT REDEEM GOOD OLD WINDOWS SAAR, VERY INSECURE, VERY BAD SAAR, PLEASE USE OUR LATEST ZOG SPYWARE SAAAR!!!
>>1066453981) Bulky2) Heavy3) Gives you cancer4) Expensive5) Takes up lots of desk space6) Expensive to produce6.5) And ship
>>106645398Because posting that pic of my CRT on my 42inch 4k OLED that can do 144Hz, VRR, HDR, feels good. >>106645403For fun.
>>106645417On the other hand1) simplier than modern monitors2) durable3) can't be kiked like modern monitors4) has sovl5) makes corpo shitskins cry and dilate
>>106645412Not every opinion you don't like is made by Indians. Old windows is insecure, and if you don't want zog spyware use Linux. Anyway how do I connect this XP to the internets securely?
>>106645067It came from being true. Security of XP wasn't great and people rarely used a separate firewall.You usually won't see infections even on XP now because most attack vectors are blocked at the router. If you rawdog it like back then and hook XP straight to the internet, it will 100% get infected.
>>1066454441) Not true2) ehh3) What do you mean by that4) https://edramatica.com/Retro5) The fuck are you going on about
>>106645425Yeah but as a Main PC or secondary? I can understand secondary
>>106645500Of course not as a main PC, that' would be ludicrous.
>>106645447>Not every opinion you don't like is made by IndiansThe vast majority of shitty, anti-consumer opinions you can read online are either posted by jeets, kikes or people affiliated with them.>Old windows is insecure,Security updates don't matter if you are not retarded. Unless you launch the malware on your own or expose your PC directly to the internet, literally nothing is going to happen.>and if you don't want zog spyware use LinuxTroonix is a controlled opposition, who aggressively forces you to use internet in order to install most programs, and is practically controlled by a bunch of obsessed commiepedotroons and their corpo overlords, AND to make things worse, it has 0 compatibility with decent software.>Anyway how do I connect this XP to the internets securely?most retarded nigger award>>106645472> Not truekike opinion>ehhkike opinion>What do you mean by thatno HDCP , no in-monitor recording of your own content or any other faggotry that affects niggercattle with new hardware.>https://edramatica.com/Retrotranny pedo website for 40yo LE HEKIN OLDFAGS with no personality> The fuck are you going on aboutkikes, their brown golems and shabbos goys like you seethe and dilate because we, legacyGODS refuse to accept your new, worse future.
>>106645447>Anyway how do I connect this XP to the internets securely?install virus scannerdon't be a retard
>>106645600>install virus scannerliterally pointless boomerware that will slow down your computer.
>>106644850Just run it as a VM
>>106645600Virus scanners are shit
>>106645186>>106644982>>106644931>>106645353also ancientfag here, these people are correct. The meme of XP turning into dust the second you connect it to the Internet, bullshit. Just have some common sense, don't open emails from strangers and don't torrent shit like SmellsLikeTeenSpirit.mp3.exe and you'll be finet. updooter with an IBM T60p XP rig that does everything just fine. Supermium will be your browser of choice, it's based on Chromium and runs on XP, 7 and Vista and rumor has it they're going to port it to W2000.
>>106645678I'll go one step further, I have a W98SE machine that connects to the Internet just fine and it's slow enough that if someone were to do something to it I would know immediately.I would never daily drive it, or an XP machine, but they do work.
>>106645703Based.
>>106645703Lightweight malware written in C or even Assembly exists.
>>106645703you do love your false sense of security, eh?
>>106645741>>106645768That 98SE machine has to connect through my phone because almost all of the wireless adapters that work on it don't recognize modern network security protocols, so yes, I do enjoy it.There are other ways, travel routers exist and would also allow it to connect. It's not like I'm using it every day, calm down and go touch some grass.
>>1066448501. install linux2. install xfce or mate3. install windows xp theme4. ???5. profit
>>106645353>>106645678This, and in case you're on a CGNAT ISP, you're firewalled at ISP level - even if you try and setup the router in bridged mode, disable the built-in XP firewall and connect the XP NIC directly to the internet with a public ip address assigned to Windows XP primary NIC so you can make a point with another clickbait video for computer illiterate retards, no third worlder bot will be able to reach your machine.Anyone who says you can't connect an old Windows to the internet without immediately getting owned is a computer illiterate retard redditor who never heard of NAT/firewalls. Or is an intellectually dishonest paid shill
>>106644850>Hammer Time!
>>106645186>Firewalls were third party programs you downloaded seperately, and so were virus and malware scanners. People didnt even use routers back then, you just directly connected your computer to your modemThis is basically the gist. There are automated systems, right now, scanning all the common ports known to man looking for vulnerabilities in port forwarding, outdated routers, etc. People actually think their operating system is the key variable here when it's always been the router, you can go on https://www.shodan.io/ and get a list of actively probed and vulnerable routers right now. This "connect and instantly get pwned" shit has been bullshit for over a decade at least. Every router comes prconfigured with firewalls and port management to protect you from this kind of thing and like another anon mentioned even your ISP is doing it. "don't connect it to the internet" is literally tech illiterate advice coming from people who probably have no fucking clue about computer security in any sense of the words, which is to be expected on this consumer advertising board
>>106645186>People didnt even use routers back then, you just directly connected your computer to your modem.This was the main reason it was so easy to get exploited back then. During dial-up and early DSL/cable eras, 90% of home users connected to the internet using a modem in bridged mode with the public ip address directly assigned to the Windows primary NIC.I used ZoneAlarm firewall and sometimes it was fun just watching the logs pile up with all the chinks, russians, romanians and brazilians trying to get into my PC (no jeets because India wasn't online back then)
>>106646083>install troonix>become a tranny>have no decent programs to run>hang yourselfNo, thanks.>>106646170This anon gets it>>106646349Why do you street-shitting golems refuse to learn how networking works? We already told you many times that chink botnets can't even reach computers with old windows versions because they sit behind your ISPs router. Most ISPs nowadays won't even allow you to port forward even if you wanted to. street-shitters like you are literally the perfect example of a redditor who started watching kali troonix tutorials on jewtube a week ago and now thinks that he is some sort of all-knowing tech god (you are not). Kill yourself you dumb subhuman shitskin.
>>106646520>have no decent programs to runwhat can you run on windows xp that you can't also run on linux?
>>106646083>install linux
>>106644850>Windows XP is good but no fun without internet. How do I connect it to the internet safely?Use a virtual machine running linux as your browser. Simple as.
>>106646554Every Windows application that supports XP, and not Linux or Wine. There are a lot more than you might think
>>106646554all good, old productivity software for example. 2012 photoshop still mogs whatever modern program linux has to offer. Same for all those small system utilities, software for programming small electronic peripherals, like radio scanners for example. Troonix will simply never have any equivalents for those programs and even though you could run some of them with wine , they will never run as reliably as on actual windows.>>106646573tranny, unreliable solution, since supermium and r3dfox exist.
>>106646662>2012 photoshopAgreed. One of my family members bought CS5 and I can still use every single piece of warez on the DVD to this day, without any subscription. The only bad thing is everything apart from Photoshop is x86 and could run better.
>>106645598>Security updates don't matter if you are not retarded. Unless you launch the malware on your own or expose your PC directly to the internet, literally nothing is going to happen.Correct. That's how they scare normies into slopdooting, but even then, XP (specifically Posready 2009 which I highly recommend) received it's last security patch in 2019, so it's not like you'd using barebones SP3 anyways if you know your shit: https://legacyupdate.net/On XP, a good third party firewall will take care of most of the issues. A decent AV is also optional unless you're reading other people's thumbdrives regularly.
>>106646738Recommend me a good XP firewall for 2025, I mostly just use the Windows one but I'm sure something better exists.Are there even modern day VPNs that work on XP?
Can't be bothered to read the entire thread. Give me a QRD on what the consensus is.
>>106646838>61 replies>can't be bothered to readYou must be Gen Alpha or a zoomer, I'm not going to dumb this down for you because you have the attention span of a goldfish
>>106644850The internet has not existed for quite some time. Therefore, to connect to the internet one will first need to invent the temporal modem.
>>106646838XP is insecure by default, some people say that pos ready 2009 version is more secure due to updates until 2019, don't connect non-updated windows XP to the internet because it will get pwned, your router and ISP will supposedly block hax0rs
>>106646825>Recommend me a good XP firewall for 2025, I mostly just use the Windows one but I'm sure something better exists.The same firewall I've been using for as long as it has existed: Sygate Personal Firewall Pro. Get the very latest beta they released before being absorbed by Symantec. I warn you, though, the application hijacking functionality specifically is useless today due to being list-based, but everything else is state of the art tech and better than anything that came afterwards. Usually runs on 8mb, but may take as much as 12mb under heavy loads.>Are there even modern day VPNs that work on XP?No idea, I use socks servers via Proxifier.
>>106646846Gen A is already smarter than zoomniggers, don't bring them into this
>>106646866Skill issue.
>>106646838XP or any other old windows version is not insecure just because ledditors say so. Security updates dont matter if you are not reatarded, your computer is firewalled by your ISPs router and the rest is just the matter of not downloading malware on your own. trannies try standard fear-mongering tactics to bully people into updooting.
>>106645033kek of course it's a CRT troon
>>106647042>crt troonlet me guess, You prefer fauci-approved modern technologies, am I right, lilith?
>>106645703> win98se slowWhat? Win98 is unbelievably fast compared to NT 3.51 and 4.0Press your “turbo” button do it says “66” instead of 33.
>>106646998> XP is insecure?Yeah, it’s not insecure. I’m running XP on an old machine on a separate network that can’t get out just because I don’t want them phoning home with anything.I consider modern telemetry a negative thing.Any programs I get I download onto nas with linux and just pick it up on the XP side.
>>106647141Shit excuse, LED panels are arguably better >>106645417\
>>106646911My firewall is an old laptop running linux with an ethernet port and I’m using a USB ethernet dongle for the other port. Simple as.This one is USB 1.1 and it gets reasonable bandwidth. This “I need 1 GB/s bandwidth so I can watch 8K tiktok videos while driving across arizona” is another scam.
>>106647266I connect my computers directly to the modem through a switch. That way I have better control of everything.
>>106647148I mean, it's all relative, my daily driver is a six-core 11th gen Xeon with 128gb RAM and an RTX A4000 8gb so 750mhz P3 with 256mb is slow, but not if you put 98SE on it lolI found out there is a 1ghz upgrade so I may or may not do that, it's doing fine at 750.
>>106647331Can you post on 4chan with that laptop?
>>106644982>>106645033sovlnice setup anon
>>106647359I tried, we had a thread about this earlier.It runs K-Meleon 1.5 browser. If I slapped XP on it, that would give me access to Supermium and theoretically if it could solve the captcha fast enough, I could post here with it.Now, I can view 4chan with it and it actually works fairly well. It will view most websites that don't require SSE2 instructions and I can play Quake 2 online with it, it's got an 8mb ATi Mobility M3 which is a Rage-based chipset.
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
What is with all the "old bad new good" or "new good old bad" flamewar bait threads?
>>106647539Every thread on /g/ eventually turns into a flamewar, let alone the thread be flamebait. All I wanted to know was how to connect this damn PC to the interweb securely, but lo, people had to argue.
>>106645353I have an old thinkpad running XP as other computer. I don't use it often but nothing ever happens. These people are shills.
>>106644850>no fun without internetAnd why would that be?
>>106647579just plug the ethernet cable in and stop being a pussy
>>106644850Make sure your router is up to date and its NAT is turned on (you should do that regardless of what OS you're using) , install SP3, the post SP3 updates, and the POSReady 2009 updates (using either the unofficial SP4 or Legacy Update), use an up to date browser like New Moon or Supermium.
>>106644926>>106644944This is only a problem if you're connecting it to the internet raw with no router security systems in place. Most ISPs don't even allow you to do that anymore.
Friendly reminder that XP was the very last OS you could easily tweak into not opening any useless ports at all without actually compromising utility and stability. From Vista onwards that has not been the case. Not that it matters much when you've got a good firewall, but there's no legitimate reason for such sloppiness.
>>106647677And even then, it's just a matter of identification, which you can fake.
>>106647402Supermium needs an SSE2. New Moon has builds for IA32 though and it can solve captchas.
>>106646520try reading that post again:>>106646349>This "connect and instantly get pwned" shit has been bullshit for over a decade at least. Every router comes prconfigured with firewalls and port management to protect you from this kind of thing and like another anon mentioned even your ISP is doing it.
>>106645353>computer is always firewalled by default with your ISPs routerWhat? I just use a Huawei USB modem.
>>106647042That's a normal office setup you spasticA tranny would have much different looking equipment
>>106644982>>106645033I don't know why you have so many video games on your computer! :cIt's not like you played all of them!
>>106647580Plus, if you’re worried about it, …Make backups.If you’re still worried, mound the HD on a linux box, take checksums of all the system files, and compare for changes.
>>106644850should just be a button with This grayed out.
>>106644850Run it on a VM.
