But indeed it you expose all the ports to internet (not just connect under nat) windows XP, you gonna get infected by blaster within 5 minutes
There is a lot of misinformation regarding the security of older OSes.
There are some people online fabricating videos of older Windows (moslty XP and 7) “getting hacked by idling”, with one of these videos even clearly having a web browser open in the taskbar with the title “virus download”. And when it is pointed out that this doesn’t happen, they get defensive that it will if you are raw connected to the internet. But pretty much everyone owns a modern router that would block direct connections by default, and most ISPs gift one even.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 days ago
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Thank you.
If you’ve ensured your home network’s firewall is sane first, there’s no big issue.
If you dual-boot to Windows occasionally to run that one stupid program that can’t run under Linux, and you aren’t downloading stuff willy-nilly from the wild internet, and you haven’t previously installed all sorts of dodgy call-home programs, you can still be safe running while you’re in Windows. Hell, I have a Windows 7 box that runs just fine from my home network to the internet, thankyouverymuch. I even download stuff from there gasp, but I check the files first! Imagine that.
Most people aren’t knowledgeable enough to maintain proper security however so I guess I should just stop commenting on posts like this, as I always get flak from people stating it’s impossible to run an OS more than 2 weeks old on the Internet without being instantly hacked :p.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
On the other hand, there were some exploits without user interaction even in the last few months.