How can you realistically get hacked from using an outdated OS if you're behind a firewall? All those meme vids of "computer hacked after 10 seconds of connecting XP to the internet" involve turning off he firewall, from what I heard. If the firewall is on what is the realistic attack vector where you get hacked because of an unpatched weakness in the OS? Outdated browser maybe, but that goes for any OS. Is browser security worse on an outdated OS?
firewall set to public mode (more restrictive) plus disabling some potentially vulnerable services like accepting remote desktop call-ins should be enough
>>107723003As long as you aren't pirating software or browsing sketchy websites with horribly outdated versions of Firefox or Chrome, you're totally fine with connecting old operating systems to the internet. I've personally been using Mac OS X 10.4 for like 10 years as my detox OS and I haven't had a single security issue yet.
>>107723057your name is Manolo, you live in Mexico and you download furry porn
Winnuke.
>>107723220>The exploit sent a string of Out-of-band data (OOB data) to the target computer on TCP port 139So it wouldn't work if your computer was behind a firewall? Also this thing is ancient and patched and didn't even pwn the computer, seems like more of a prank.
>>107723003You discovered the truth, anon. Bill Gates is on his way to your home to beat you up.
>>107723248I actually use Windows 11 but I use old Android on my phone, but the updoot logic is the same as on Windows. I'm somehow supposed to get pwned from using a few trusted apps and an up to date browser because my Android is outdated. I'm trying to understand how.
>>107723003there are zero risks if you're behind cgnatif the mentally ill disagree then you should give them your IP 192.168.1.5 and watch them move the goalposts and hang themselves when they cant do the things in those youtube videos
>>107723057>You're totally fine, trust me bro
the tldr of what happened was the launch of 10 was clearly going downhill like it was for 8 and instead of backpedaling like they did going from vista to 7, they just went forward with the changes end users didnt wantbut in order to get people to switch anyway, they ran that whole campaign about out of date operating system security risks, and how using something without regular security updates was super dangerous for a regular user, the idea was successfully planted into assorted tech cultures and people tend to parrot what they hear news outlets talk about regardless of its entirely true or notnobody gave a fuuuuuuuuck about what operating system you were using in terms of its age or how up to date it was before that point, when 8.1 came around people were still on 7 and XP in reasonable numberspeoples concerns were software compatibility as the operating systems aged, not the security of anything, nobody cared about thatwhen XP started getting old the issue wasnt the lack of updates or support, it was that browsers didnt support it anymore, game launchers stopped working on it, new video standards online meant that old versions of browsers would struggle with youtube and suchpeople were worried about that, thats the reason to upgrade the OSbut since everything worked fine on 7 and 8.1 and everyone was fairly happy with them, 10 came around and it looked like a hassle, nobody wanted or needed to upgradeso microsoft had to trick them into upgradingthe reality is that for a regular home user, common sense 2003 edition is about all you need to avoid getting some detrimental virus on your computerand even if you do, who the fuck cares, wipe it and start againyoure not doing time critical professional work on an XP machine which youre also downloading cracked versions of minecraft on
>>107723003100% certainty if you have services listening the open net, which XP and 7 has
>>107723814>which XP and 7 haslike what
>>107723931All the network services like updates, network discovery, printing, etc
>>107723057you can't live without piracy nowdays
>>107723003>Intel Processor Diagnostic Toolwhat does this actually do?
