hectorm

You should run it inside the network affected by the blockage.

If you use Docker you can run the following command to start the server and configure your browser to use it as an HTTP proxy.

  docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.io/hectorm/demergi:latest

You can of course set this up manually outside Docker, I provide this image so that you can easily have a preconfigured installation with VNC, RDP, bind shell and a Samba server.

During the installation I add Netcat to have a bind shell, this way you can get a CMD shell from Linux using the "vmshell" command included in the image.

So yes, technically it's backdoored but only for yourself :)

The ISO is downloaded from WinWorld, which is a website dedicated to archiving old software, it's certainly community maintained but at least gets some scrutiny. I also searched the checksum and it matches with other sources, but as there is no longer an official Microsoft source you can never be entirely sure.

I've done my best to confirm the legitimacy but if anyone has an original CD it would be awesome if they could confirm it.

Effectively this is done as a POC, don't expect any security on a machine running Windows 2000 nowadays.

Regarding legality, I hope that Microsoft doesn't claim any rights, since the Windows 2000 image has been published in WinWorld for years without issues.