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 3 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/retrocomputing

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

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)

permalink
fedilink
source
parent
hideshow 2 child comments

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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

permalink
fedilink
source
parent

this post was submitted on 18 May 2024

63 points (80.0% liked)

retrocomputing

4021 readers

2 users here now

Discussions on vintage and retrocomputing

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

SDF

cognitivegears

Penkster