On 7/9/22 08:56, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
> 
> There is a version called TinyXP that strips out most everything from the
> full version, including all of the apps (including IE) and theoretically
> would have a much smaller attack surface than plain Windows. It's also tiny
> and runs in a small VM nicely - when I ran it, it idled at 118 MB of RAM and
> ran my BBS in a 512 MB VM nicely.
> 
> I don't know if it's still a valid option.

Should be, and while I would generally avoid using Windows altogether 
for anything facing the internet, if I wanted to use an older version of 
windows, that's likely what I'd do... Did similar with slim win98 for a 
while...

Would also add in a software firewall, and severely restrict 
inbound/outbound access, and maybe even isolate it from talking to 
anything else other than the router entirely.
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Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
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