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   Hello Nick!   
      
   Thursday March 09 2023 19:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    > On 09 Mar 23  21:37:10, Vincent Coen said the following to Dean   
    > Galloway:   
      
    VC>> It has not had support and includes security updates, for many,   
    VC>> many years upgrade it to v10 (you will not find if using old kit   
    VC>> that it will install need very up to date h/w).   
      
    > While I would agree with this... I decided to keep the BBS instance on   
    > XP because after many frustrating nights with 7, 8, 8.1 and 10   
    > randomly hanging NTVDM it became more hassle than its worth.   
      
    > I strongly believe Microsoft changed something in NTVDM after XP that   
    > made running anything DOS-BBS-related extremely unreliable here.   
      
   Since XP and NT for that matter MS have been removing support for DOS in all,   
   where from v7 it is all gone so yes that is more than likely BUT I have not   
   tried or for that matter looked into what, when and where has happened after   
   XP.   
      
   I therefore have no idea of the issues found when using later versions of   
   Windoz - I gave up with MS and Dos many years ago and switched to OS/2 and we   
   all know what happened with that after 1999 or there about.   
   I decided I had no choice but to use Linux or other *nix and if needed wine   
   which has/had it's own problems.   
      
   My basic point was that any one using XP,NT etc would have no support    
   regarding   
   security aspects of Windows from MS.   
      
   How ever that said a strong firewall would help even if only using the one   
   installed in good quality routers (that does NOT include the one's supplied by   
   the ISP - which I have found to be some what poor).   
   In my case I have been using Asus - at least in more recent years to handle   
   primary firewall and port forwarding etc with a more minor role taken by Linux   
   firewall tools BUT still used.   
      
   It helps of course that main processes such as BBS, Apache etc is run in a VM   
   most of which are read-only processes. These environments are updated often by   
   any updates so that are kept fresh - not perfect but...   
      
   Needless to say the Linux environment is run at High security so that root   
   privileges and access, are minimised.   
      
   I would not want to trust old Window versions on a system that has incoming   
   access via the internet without some very strong other tools that will cover   
   the problems/issues.   
      
   i.e., I run a mainframe via a concentrator that is a micro based computer that   
   vets all incoming connections that must have a registered MAC code, CPU   
   model and serial no., user name and password among other checks before    
   allowing   
   a user access any further. It seems to do the job so far.   
      
   Vincent   
      
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