[Coco] VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator v2.0.1 - Public Release (finally!)

[Corey Bryant]

Most of us run 98 and XP systems for emulators that are not compatible with later architecture. 

The risk isn't from malware or virus activity.  Those you get by running software downloaded or visiting malicious websites and in fact you can still easily protect an old XP or 98 system with several flavors of anti-virus that still work and update on those platforms.   The risk lies in attacks on bugs, vulnerabilities and "holes" in the XP and previous operating systems.   "Exploits" as it were.  A worm would be a form of an exploit as well and worms really aren't a threat to XP boxes, as they target "popular" OSes for a reason.

Some years back the source code to XP was leaked to the public and it exposed many holes that engineers worked to patch until the very last update went out - not to mention hackers found quite a few other ways to exploit the operating system in ways that the engineers never thought of.   

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-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Nelson [mailto:barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 7:38 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator v2.0.1 - Public Release (finally!)

 Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and is no longer updated with security fixes. I would not suggested running anything on an XP system that is connected to the internet at this point as it will probably quickly get infected by malware. I would suggest upgrading to at least Vista or Windows 7. If you must run XP, either isolate it from the internet, or run it under emulation, or both. Otherwise, well, good luck with the viruses you will most likely collect. Or. Run Linux.

On Oct 2, 2015, at 1:18 AM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> The file size seems correct as 'properties' works but the build will 
> not
> 
> run on a WinXP SP3 32-bit system.