[This guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w) connects to the web on an xp version that is being runned on vm. How can they get so much access to the computer, why didn’t this happened so eassily back in the day, and why newer os are less likely to run into those problems?
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a few things i want to point out about this video:
1. in this video, they’re not simply connecting to the web and are getting infected. they are manually disabling stuff the would otherwise protect them.
2. there’s a frame whereit shows they looked up “xp sp3 wor” which makes it atleast suspicious as to whether or not they were manually installing a worm
3. regardless to the previous two – windows xp exploits and weaknesses were very common. whenever something is popular, it attracts people with bad intentions looking for an easy payday, or ones that are just bad for the sake of being bad. the takeaway of this video shouldn’t be that being online is inherently dangerous, it should be to use the recommended security tools and measures that are given within the operating system and keep your system up to date with updates that routinely fix new vulnerabilities that were discovered.
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