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medlazik
275 days ago
About 30 critical RCEs since oct 24, botnet operators adore you
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Krssst
275 days ago
More than them, they should adore companies whose updates come with unwanted features and fresh new bugs that lead to this behavior. I have never been afraid of Debian stable / Fedora updates but I am always weary of Windows and Android updates.
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ipaddr
275 days ago
Tell that to my windows 7 unpatched for about 20 years now. Those botnets are collecting devices with default passwords.
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pixl97
275 days ago
Na, someone probably already p0wn3d your box and is installing updates in the background so they don't lose control of it.
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medlazik
275 days ago
That's not "your" windows 7 but a community computer used to host cp
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ipaddr
274 days ago
Never got a virus. But everyone installing updates got malware after malware. Don't let the faangs scare you into giving your freedoms away.
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