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How many minutes would that highly responsive Windows XP install survive browsing the web before it's rendered useless by tons of malware? How many 2005 era ap
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
How many minutes would that highly responsive Windows XP install survive browsing the web before it's rendered useless by tons of malware?
How many 2005 era applications, print drivers, toolbars or screensavers, and whatever else was cool in 2005, can you install before the machine is as responsive as a 300 baud connection?
XP era was probably peak crapware with people having IE with 12 added toolbars and unusable everything. Often solved by buying a replacement machine because the old one got so slow.
- smolder 8y agoThere's not too much in the way of xp malware still actively spreading, but you're right, an xp machine at one point was like a public domain colocated computer to be abused by whoever. Computer insecurity is costly and counterproductive. It helps criminals and maybe the occasional oppressive regimes walk us backwards, mess up lives, mess up businesses. I don't think privilege escalation and encryption key theft should be taken lightly. Abusable things get abused.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoThere's plenty of crapware today, hell, Microsoft forces some of it on you in the default install. The same rules more or less still apply: it's risky to install crap from random untrusted sources. I still have an XP machine I use all the time at work because it has a real physical serial port for talking to some equipment with. It hasn't been a problem.