Continue to use the W7 XP Mode safely?

I make heavy use of the W7 XP Mode to run important former BACK programs that don't have no more modern equivalent.  They have no need for online access.

If I remove all virtual machine network access (by setting all NICs to 'not connected'), it will continue to provide protection against malware of my XP subsystems once support is removed next month?

Thank you

Andrew

If you set the NICs to 'Not connected' and turn off the virtual machine integration feature will be completely isolated from the host.  If the network card is disabled, then the virtual machine won't be able to go on the internet or be able to access your network local or other machines on the local network, which pretty much excludes the risk of harmful internet download and transmit them to the host or their distribution across your local network or have the virtual machine as a target for the attacks of the other machines on the local network.

The resources that you have chosen to make available to the virtual machine will have an impact on safety and exposure to the host or other machines on the local network, I wouldn't be too concerned of a printer share, but sharing the disk OS crowd might not be a very good idea!  In a Word, the virtual machine is completely isolated from the host until you decide to incorporate some of the features available on the host computer.

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