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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 2 points 3 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.