> If someone were to bring a Win95 machine online and connected to the web today would it be bombarded with assaults or something? I'm curious the mechanics of

> If someone were to bring a Win95 machine online and connected to the web today would it be bombarded with assaults or something? I'm curious the mechanics of this all. Generally speaking yes, but realistically only if you’re opening your ports to the internet. There are lots of random scanners out there that are attempting to exploit known 0-days etc in all systems. Granted the biggest one is probably ETERNALBLUE, which I think doesn’t go back to 95, but still. Obviously browsing infected pages on a hypothetically working web browser would also do the trick, but sites like HN are benign. Windows 95 is so old, though, that you’re unlikely to find much web-enabled software that works well outside of enthusiast projects.