• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      17 hours 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?

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 hours 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.

      • mrvictory1@lemmy.world
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        15 hours 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.