- Oct 15, 2003
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I work at a power supply lab, and some of the oscilloscopes that we use, are Windows 2000 embedded based computers (Techtronix TDS5104B).
There does not appear to be a way to update the OS to something modern. The software to run the oscilloscope portion of the computer, won't install on anything except for the custom Windows install supplied with the scope.
So barring the usually suggestion, stop using Windows 2000, does anyone know of any anti virus software that is still updated and maintained that works for Windows 2000? I don't care if it is a paid-for anti-virus, these are expensive machines anyway.
We need these scopes on our local network for remote control purposes, so we can't really isolate them. They do not need an internet connection, but they're still vulnerable to other computers being on the same local network. Flash drives are regularly plugged into them too, for data retrieval. We've had lots of issues in the past with them getting infected.
There does not appear to be a way to update the OS to something modern. The software to run the oscilloscope portion of the computer, won't install on anything except for the custom Windows install supplied with the scope.
So barring the usually suggestion, stop using Windows 2000, does anyone know of any anti virus software that is still updated and maintained that works for Windows 2000? I don't care if it is a paid-for anti-virus, these are expensive machines anyway.
We need these scopes on our local network for remote control purposes, so we can't really isolate them. They do not need an internet connection, but they're still vulnerable to other computers being on the same local network. Flash drives are regularly plugged into them too, for data retrieval. We've had lots of issues in the past with them getting infected.