It often requires going to a compromised website or having an insecure service running on XP that is open to the internet through an opened port. Other browsers may be available, web-search this.įWIW2, just "getting on the internet" is not necessarily going to open you for malware. The only browser I know of that can run in XP and have some semblance of accessing the web is Firefox version 52.0. If I can't get the VM to connect to the internet I may not be able to send the error report that I need to send, so I am willing to take the risk involved.įWIW, if you can successfully ping 8.8.8.8 in the command prompt from within the XP VM, then you have internet access in the VM.īirdie's comments for web-browsing are on point: XP's IE (all IE's?) is way too old for modern internet. I know that's a tall order, owing to MS having withdrawn support for this OS in 2014, but there are AV programs which claim to include XP, so, hopefully, it should allow me to do what I need to do without the OS getting infested with malicious etc stuff. But, first, I would install an AV program which at least claims to work with XP. If it can be made to work, my intention is to use it for this purpose, and this purpose only. ![]() Indeed, it appears to be enabled to do (this was done for the reason that I gave in my previous message), but the connection does not work, and I can't see why. The simplest way to do this should be to connect the VM XP to the internet. The software program itself will do the latter, but needs to connect to the internet to do so. So I need to generate a fault report, and send it to the program originator. ![]() There is a problem with the operation of an aspect of this software. ![]() I need the VM to be able to go online because I run in it a piece of modern software that allows "legacy" programs in a virtual environment on a modern machine (W10 in my case) to be used to their full capability. I'm well aware of the correctness of the points that you raise. I'll bear your guidance in mind the next time I place a topic. As a general rule (outwith at least this forum) it's pretty normal practice. I didn't notice that it does seem to be the rule that topic headings are not in capitals.
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