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Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 5 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] brian@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The takeaway I think they were trying to give was that the same experiments done on a more modern OS does not have these same "instant" infections (they reference having windows 7 under the same conditions without any issue)

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

What are they going to write about next, the dangers of unsigned drivers and how easily they infect Windows 98? lol