Botnets are no joke, just connect to internet and they see you, unless you close ports and stuffI don't even protect it with anything, just Virus Total a file if its below 600mb and I find it suspicious. I just stay at the part of the internet where the grass is cut
I No Longer Use Any "Security" Program - I'm Sandboxed!
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If you don't get interested in security, security will get interested in you. Just like politics. If you have any ports open (like when browsing), automated botnets will find you in under 3 minutes and infect you. It might be too late.I don't even protect it with anything, just Virus Total a file if its below 600mb and I find it suspicious. I just stay at the part of the internet where the grass is cut
When you got infected, did you find any new programs installed, or was it just your XP's RPC crash and reboot? I think it was the Blaster worm, it had bad coding and couldn't deliver its payload.
Looking at my nlite.ini, my XP ISO removes IIS, NetBios, and for removed services Messenger, Network DDE, Remote Registry, Service Advertising Protocol. I'll send it to you if you'd like to check out all the tweaks such as closing port 445 for TCP/UDP (Microsoft-DS)
because I haven't gotten any worm infections during no AV or firewall.
Looking at my nlite.ini, my XP ISO removes IIS, NetBios, and for removed services Messenger, Network DDE, Remote Registry, Service Advertising Protocol. I'll send it to you if you'd like to check out all the tweaks such as closing port 445 for TCP/UDP (Microsoft-DS)
because I haven't gotten any worm infections during no AV or firewall.
PLEASE SEND ME THE ISO! I wanted to install a chainloaded Windows XP onto an external disk, but was too worried that I would get infected in the first 3 minutes before I disable all of the crap. If you send me the ISO, I will be able to test actually booting Windows XP from USB/External Hard Disk so please do!
Also, the worm was Conficker. It repeatedly spammed specific ports and after analyzing router traffic, that was 100% it.
I sent Martingonn a PM to organize how to file transfer. In the meantime if anyone wants to apply these changes to their own XP ISO, simply download nLite (I use version 1.4.93) it will need to install .NET 2.0, then you simply import this INI and make a new copy of your ISO. During the nLite process, you'll want to add to click and add whatever SATA drivers your motherboard requires (or just change your BIOS to use IDE compatibility mode). My INI removes all languages except English, so if you're international you'll want to remove your language from the INI so it stays intact. This makes the finished ISO around 400mb instead of 700mb. xpsp3.ini for regular xp, and xp64sp2.ini for xp64.
Will try it out, though my ISO is already 450 mb...
Please check if I have added the network components correctly and please add in any that I missed!
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I don't think that'll block Ethernet and TCP/IP, which'll be auto installed and the Intel network card that VMware emulates is one of the included drivers in the XP ISO from Microsoft, so that will also be auto-installed. You would have to remove one or the other after installation, or just rely on removing the Ethernet emulation from the VM settings.
I mainly want to simply have a smaller ISO image, I have connections turned off in VirtualBox. Also, your Office 97 took me down a rabbithole...