• @[email protected]
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      012 days ago

      The “support” most importantly includes security updates. You better bet every hacking group has been working at finding fresh zero days for Windows 10 and is stockpiling them to start hammering any PCs that can’t be upgraded this October

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      012 days ago

      I hope this is a sarcastic joke.

      If it’s not, support means updates. More importantly security updates.

      There is a reason you don’t put a windows XP machine on the internet.

      • @[email protected]
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        012 days ago

        XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.

        • @[email protected]
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          012 days ago

          Noooooo. There was an article in the last 6 months about someone connecting a windows xp to the internet just to see what happened, and within 10 minutes it had been scanned and infected. They repeated the experiment several times.

          It’s child’s play (like, literally script kiddie level) to run automated scans and if a vulnerability, like a really old operating system, is found to then attack it.