- Sep 20, 2018
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Hi everyone
This is an odd one, but it seems that you people on here are fairly knowledgeable so I thought I'd ask.
One of my hobbies is scambaiting those tech support guys that phone you or create pop ups online. I call them, waste their time a little. Some of you might think this is a bit weird, and I grant you, it is, but it's fun to me and I like to think I'm helping occupy these guys so they can't call little old ladies and rip them off.
I used to do this a few years ago and recently I've decided I want to do it again. I've set up a Windows Vista VM in Virtualbox. This is because I have an old Vista CD and product key lying around from way back. I don't want to go and spend money on any other copy of Windows - I have this and I'm sticking with it.
I'm struggling to find a browser. Every time I click on a link in IE7 or whatever it is, I get a "security certificate" error. Firefox and Chrome refuse to install, Opera doesn't work, Pale Moon, Maxothon - everything I've tried is broken. I'm well aware that this is because official support has ended over a year ago, and browser developers are migrating away from supporting old OSs - just trying my luck here.
Does anyone know of a browser that works at least to some degree in Windows Vista in 2018?
Thanks.
This is an odd one, but it seems that you people on here are fairly knowledgeable so I thought I'd ask.
One of my hobbies is scambaiting those tech support guys that phone you or create pop ups online. I call them, waste their time a little. Some of you might think this is a bit weird, and I grant you, it is, but it's fun to me and I like to think I'm helping occupy these guys so they can't call little old ladies and rip them off.
I used to do this a few years ago and recently I've decided I want to do it again. I've set up a Windows Vista VM in Virtualbox. This is because I have an old Vista CD and product key lying around from way back. I don't want to go and spend money on any other copy of Windows - I have this and I'm sticking with it.
I'm struggling to find a browser. Every time I click on a link in IE7 or whatever it is, I get a "security certificate" error. Firefox and Chrome refuse to install, Opera doesn't work, Pale Moon, Maxothon - everything I've tried is broken. I'm well aware that this is because official support has ended over a year ago, and browser developers are migrating away from supporting old OSs - just trying my luck here.
Does anyone know of a browser that works at least to some degree in Windows Vista in 2018?
Thanks.
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