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How far back are you thinking? There was a time when an unpatched Windows install would be owned within minutes of connecting it to the internet.
by throwawayboise 6y ago
How far back are you thinking? There was a time when an unpatched Windows install would be owned within minutes of connecting it to the internet.
- joshspankit 6y agoThose were fun days. We even had a couple races: fresh install, who can get infected the fastest.
- staticassertion 6y agoWindows is sort of an easy one since it's hardly a minimal server OS, but idk, even then, post-Windows7 I imagine things started getting far less common. OpenBSD's claim is fine and all it's just not all that important. No one just ships OpenBSD without adding something to it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago> Windows is sort of an easy one since it's hardly a minimal server OS OpenBSD ships X and a window manager in the base system
- ac29 6y agoX is an optional set of packages: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#FilesNeeded https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#FilesNeeded
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoIt is optional, but still part of the base system. It's a bit like how you could use Add/Remove Features to remove "standard" parts of Windows.
- cpach 6y agoYeah I remember back in the early naughts. Windows 98 was sooo insecure :)
- arp242 6y agoThis was even the case with Windows 2000 and XP at some point. Installing a default 2000 or XP without any updates and then using Windows Update was a no-no as you'd have malware before you could install the updates.