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)

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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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2 months ago

Lol I watched the vid and it turns out the guy did the same thing with Windows 7 and nothing even happened. The article is such clickbait garbage and it gives cybersec a bad name.

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