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Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] MonkeMischief 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've seen videos of people doing this for fun to see what happens.

Sadly now it's not even fun "for teh lulz" kinda compromise, either. Everything is just a million varieties of crypto miner or ransomware now.