My router has a pretty descent firewall so i feel like it should be safe? Maybe. Obviously I won't be signing into any online accounts or anything like that on the XP machine. Is this a bad ideas? Obviously using Windows in general is a bad idea but I'm sort of limited by the hardware here.

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My guess was that it was the updates that did the thing. I think I remember there being an issue up to Win 7 where malicious parties could advertise malware as available updates (under win7 this was only a problem if you didn't let it select and download manually).

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