Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP
This seems like a nice altruistic useful thing, but (given some overly-trusting security practices we still often see) it&#x27;d still be good practice to keep some ideas in mind...<p>DECREASING LEVELS OF SECURITY:<p>1. Running Microsoft Windows.<p>2. Running out-of-support Microsoft Windows.<p>3. Running out-of-support Microsoft Windows and having it report itself to a server of unclear provenance and security (which could be efficiently indexing such insecure machines, and possibly even exploiting vulnerabilities during this simple interaction).<p>4. Running out-of-support Microsoft Windows and updating its system software from a server of unclear provenance and security (which could install malware, possibly even defeating any outdated vendor signing).<p>SUGGESTIONS:<p>* If your important science&#x2F;medical&#x2F;industrial&#x2F;etc. equipment is stuck on ancient Microsoft Windows, probably you want to keep it airgapped and treat it gingerly, while planning to upgrade to more sustainable equipment (and hopefully it doesn&#x27;t fail abruptly before convenient).<p>* If you&#x27;re playing with Microsoft Windows for personal use, that&#x27;s fine, but maybe consider whether you&#x27;d prefer to spend your time and energy instead learning and creating atop an open source software platform.<p>* For many business and personal purposes, Debian Stable is a good OS platform, and this is one installer for it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdimage.debian.org&#x2F;debian-cd&#x2F;current&#x2F;amd64&#x2F;iso-dvd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdimage.debian.org&#x2F;debian-cd&#x2F;current&#x2F;amd64&#x2F;iso-dvd&#x2F;</a>