Comment on "You should probably just throw it away"
yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoMalware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.
Comment on "You should probably just throw it away"
yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoMalware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month 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?
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That’s nice, what does it report? Cookies? PUP?
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I got 5-6 reports then stopped extracting the image because I got scared. Mostly PUP and info stealers, maybe 1 trojan.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Considering you stopped receiving security updates years ago, anything developed since then is going to have a field day with you.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
You’re just making yourself a target. People go after low-hanging fruit, and people who haven’t had security updates in a decade are top of the list.