Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago"You should probably just throw it away"poptalk.scrubbles.techimagemessage-square424fedilinkarrow-up11.26Karrow-down114
arrow-up11.24Karrow-down1image"You should probably just throw it away"poptalk.scrubbles.techScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square424fedilink
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·13 hours agoPlease explain how malware would get on my laptop now in a way that it didn’t, oh, say, in the last 12 years?
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-237 minutes agoConsidering you stopped receiving security updates years ago, any kind of malware developed since then is going to have a field day with you.
minus-squaremrvictory1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoI 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.
Please explain how malware would get on my laptop now in a way that it didn’t, oh, say, in the last 12 years?
Considering you stopped receiving security updates years ago, any kind of malware developed since then is going to have a field day with you.
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.