chinny22 wrote on Today, 01:55:Saw this video and was disappointed. I thought it would be good for the old "how safe is " question that comes up every year or […]
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Jo22 wrote on Yesterday, 21:03:
Update. Just recently, there had been a little controversy about XP and its vulnerability to internet malware. It's because of a YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w
Saw this video and was disappointed. I thought it would be good for the old "how safe is " question that comes up every year or so here.
but as soon as he mentioned it was a direct connection to the internet the whole experiment was no longer relevant to 99% of us.
You could do the same thing with a fully patched Win11 PC, if you turned its firewall off and put it direct on the internet it may take a bit longer, but it'll still get infected.
I think the same. About the only scenario I can imagine here is an old-style satellite link,
which uses a dial-up connection for the uplink.
That's were no router might be involved yet, maybe.
But otherwise, most internet connections use a router which has NAT for IPv4 and an IP Block List for IPv6, at least.
Speaking of IPv6, Windows XP is a bit special.
It has experimental support for it, but certain things like Windows firewall or the GUI settings have no effect on it (has to be configured via command line).
Also, both IPv4 and IPv6 in XP are separate protocols. If IPv6 is being activated, but not configured, a so-called "shadow network" can come to be.
Which can undermine all the security concepts in a network (were only IPv4 is being actively controlled/filtered).
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-shadow-network
Windows 98SE can be retro-fitted with IPv6, too, but it's not available by default. So it's safe in this regard.
(There's Trumpet Winsock 5.0 rev. C, which has limited IPv6 support, or so I heard. Hitachi TOOLNET 6 exists, too.)
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