brian@lemmy.catoretrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•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
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4 months agoThe 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)
In the same way that watching porn on public transit is a social no-no