Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
zewm@lemmy.world 1 week agoI 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.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 week ago
XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 1 week 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.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, security through obscurity never really did work