Comment on "You should probably just throw it away"

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• yonder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Malware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please explain how malware would get on my laptop now in a way that it didn’t, oh, say, in the last 12 years?

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    • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I used WinXP till '19 with no signs of infections. Just extracting the .wim image of the PC was enough to trigger Defender on Win10. It was infected.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s nice, what does it report? Cookies? PUP?

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Considering you stopped receiving security updates years ago, anything developed since then is going to have a field day with you.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s amazing, it’s had years to have its field day. Where is it, please?

        You guys understand you have to actively install malware and viruses, right? It’s not like on TV with a skull and crossbones appearing on the monitor.

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• turnip@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even JavaScript can infect you.

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