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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 20 hours ago

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/idle-windows-xp-and-2000-machines-get-infected-with-viruses-within-minutes-of-being-exposed-online

That’s not necessarily going to happen to Windows 10 the day support ends, but do you really want to gamble on when it will?

[-] johnassel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 19 hours ago

To be fair, they connected the XP and 2k machines directly to the internet. Normally you have a router in between nowadays which makes such infections way harder.

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