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Going to upgrade my dad's XP for christmas, can I get some help?
RedGajin:
--- Quote from: Mac Workin on December 17, 2017, 07:05:15 AM ---ok maybe i might've been bending my neck too far, but that was my experience
apologies if it had sounded forced but i was trying to explain by experience and not knowledge, i was not aware of adware being
present in certain installers which had appeared god knows when
just give me a little breathing room, my daily driver is not on a modern computer and a modern browser, its old... both of them
so there are high chances of me not being even able to run a standard virus since it may have certain APIs or .dlls that it needs
if you know that i am truly ignorant, could you help darth by giving him a better suggestion for an anti-virus?
i'm not too sure whether if i did but this statement was just years of running XP/Server 2003/2000/NT 4.0, i sincerely apologize if i sounded too much of a corpse under a rock
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computers running old OS’s are more vulnerable to malware because they don’t have basic security measures in place that newer OS versions have. i don’t think xp isn’t even supported by microsoft anymore and the last security update it got was the wannacry patch. busting an xp/7 device is easy, and based off the fact you’ve never even installed av, im guessing you haven’t taken any other security precautions with your devices to make them safer
everyone thinks they’re good until they get their computer infected, do yourself a favor and install av, run malwarebytes scans periodically, etc
Darth C3P0²:
What Gajin said, also I probably got one of the most trusted anti-malware on the internet which is malwarebytes so yeah. Besides, Windows XP is a loving virus magnet
--- Quote from: King Tøny on December 16, 2017, 05:57:00 AM ---You can get a cheap less than 200 dollar modern computer which will probably out perform that virus filled windows XP.
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Tony, I can't even buy a $20 humble bundle and you want me to buy a 200 dollar computer just for my dad to do karaoke when I can always do a clean reset on the XP and pay for a $30 disk to install Windows 7?
--- Quote from: King Tøny on December 16, 2017, 01:09:07 AM ---Do you even know if it is even possible to upgrade that windows XP?
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no tony I am handicapped Of course I do, I just want tips on how to do a clean reset
QuadStorm:
When I upgraded an old XP computer to 7, I was able to use windows migration to transfer settings and files despite it being a clean reset otherwise. If you have storage space, backing up stuff that's important or making a list of installed programs won't hurt, since you'll need to have the migration file on a USB or something anyway if you go that route.
RedGajin:
make sure to scan all his files too before transferring them. delete anything that is malicious so it doesn’t carry over to the fresh install
Darth C3P0²:
--- Quote from: RedGajin on December 17, 2017, 01:55:53 PM ---make sure to scan all his files too before transferring them. delete anything that is malicious so it doesn’t carry over to the fresh install
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One big problem is that I found 1k viruses on a full system scan and on another 10, which might mean that there is a hidden program that is infecting the computer