Careful with that XP, Eugene (and W2K).

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Re: Careful with that XP, Eugene (and W2K).

Unread post by UCyborg » 2024-06-02, 19:23

Oh, didn't know that. Well, I have the impression that few hardcore remaining XP users disable almost everything they can in the OS, especially services that could be exploited remotely.

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Re: Careful with that XP, Eugene (and W2K).

Unread post by moonbat » 2024-06-02, 21:16

jobbautista9 wrote:
2024-06-02, 13:51
this is not so with dial-up where I heard you're directly connected to the internet.
Yes, correct. Back in the day I would try to use tracert on Windows just to see the path to some random webserver and it was interesting to see the ISP assigned dynamic hostname for my PC :)
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