Updates patch major security vulnerabilities. It’s cute that you think nuclear secrets existing in your hard drive are the only reason why you should care if your PC is infected with malware but it isn’t. Malware can steal your keystrokes, granting attackers access to your bank accounts and every other place you sign into online. Malware also uses background processes to do bad things, so your “multi-day” processes will take even longer when your computers resources are being hogged by nasty stuff.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

A machine sitting there quietly crunching numbers isn't going to get infected unless your firewall is wide open, and if it is then correcting that is far more important than installing the latest Windows updates

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And they can use your PC for DDoS attack on other people, so it's not like it's just your problem if your pc gets infected by everything ever.