22 Oct
2016
22 Oct
'16
11:53 a.m.
On 10/22/2016 01:36 PM, Ali wrote:
Just wondering are you guys not running AV SW on your old HW? I personally run period
specific AV SW on my older machines. Granted I have mostly IBM 51xx series machines and
later Macs so AV SW is easier to find.
If its a PC and running M$ it has it... I don't collect them but have
a few oldies for the utility they present.
Even the mainstay PCs in use are linux based. For those times I need
winders VMware/Openbox virtualization
keeps it well contained.
The rest of the hardware is DEC PDP-8f, Qbus PDP11s (11/03 through
11/73) and Qbus VAX plus 3100series.
The S100 gear runs CP/M as do the 8080/8085/z80 SBCs so no risk there
the remainder are odd things like
IMSAI 3035 control computer Ti9900, 6502 and others that virus/trogans
mean nothing. I can't Imagine
malware for my AmproLB+ or Kaypro4/84 would look like. In general if
its not internet connected its very
low risk and if it can't run M$ OS on intel its even less risk. When
I find a bug using the PDP-11 running RT11
or the Vax running VMS makes it really easy to dissect the code without
worry of it escaping.
For those times I wish to visit a site that is flagged as dropping
malware using an expendable virtual machine
(copy of one) has proven both safe and handy.
Allison
I didn't think modern A/V products included
complete historical sets
of signatures. I
I would certainly expect them to, yes!