1) Message boards : The Lounge : Windows XP dedicated machines (Message 53403) Posted 29 Mar 2014 by Michael Millette Post: Thanks for the information. I intend to wipe the machines clean with a program my friend's recommended that overwrites the hard drive completely with 1's and 0's alternately. I was intending to use the protection of my current Trend Micro on my newer computers by keeping the old XP machines behind their firewall. I just figure there has to be a lot of computing power still left in these old XP machines to do some number crunching for someone. Just want to do it in the safest manner without allowing someone to come along and enslave my PC to do their bidding. I'll look into the Microsoft Security Essentials. I think I saw somewhere that this program will also not protect XP anymore, but not sure why it wouldn't continue to protect. Thanks again for your response.

2) Message boards : The Lounge : Windows XP dedicated machines (Message 53388) Posted 28 Mar 2014 by Michael Millette Post: With the demise of Windows XP as a "supported" system. I would like to scrub the machines clean with a new copy of XP and allow these old machines to be used exclusively for Boinc number crunching. Is there an easy way to use these machines and have them access the Internet through a host computer that has firewall/antivirus protection? In other words, I don't want to pay to have virus protection if I can place the system behind one of my newer computers and use the newer computer as a host to be able to send data back and forth. Anyone have any experience setting up machines like this? Your help and advice is greatly appreciated.

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