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A Windows XP machine's life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PC (www.pcgamer.com)
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Just a fun, somewhat terrifying read

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 183 points 3 months ago

Wow, Windows is better! Look at how fast you can set up an FTP server, without even issuing any commands!

Beat that, Linux!

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 39 points 3 months ago

This is a top tier joke

[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 16 points 3 months ago

Torvolds adding neuralink kernel support /s

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

About 15 years ago I left a PC running an ftp server with no password. Weeks later I went to use it and it had 0 disk space. The drive was filled with PS2 isos.

Thanks hackers!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

delet

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

I can write an ansible playbook to do it. Probably just pull in a container

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