misk@sopuli.xyz to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 months agoIdle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internetwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down121
arrow-up163arrow-down1external-linkIdle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internetwww.tomshardware.commisk@sopuli.xyz to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squarebrian@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 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)
minus-squarePeffse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·6 months agoWhat are they going to write about next, the dangers of unsigned drivers and how easily they infect Windows 98? lol
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)
What are they going to write about next, the dangers of unsigned drivers and how easily they infect Windows 98? lol