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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[–] 1 point 3 months ago*

If you can, I’d just block connections from this WinXP box to the Internet completely, then it should be fine.

I don’t know the reputation of this host, whether it’s a C2 slave/bot or other malware.

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