• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 … what’s the issue?

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        2 days 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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          1 day ago

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

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            24 hours 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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              9 hours 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.

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                5 hours ago

                Again, how will this happen? This is just technical illiteracy, my friend.

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                  2 hours ago

                  I don’t know what the fuck you do on the internet… Are you really trying to suggest people don’t get hacked like this? People have lost millions in crypto from shit like that. I know you don’t care about crypto or whatever, but it doesn’t make the situation less real…

                  Some people have things of value on their internet-connected devices. It’s just foolish to not stay up to date with security updates.

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          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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              19 hours ago

              I got 5-6 reports then stopped extracting the image because I got scared. Mostly PUP and info stealers, maybe 1 trojan.

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                5 hours ago

                So nothing at all like the dramatic stuff people have been telling me so far? Hmm, interesting.

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      2 days ago

      Even JavaScript can infect you.

      Assuming your family does online banking and brokerage you then become a jumping off point for malware.