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Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet (www.tomshardware.com)

prob shoulda dumped this in

prob shoulda dumped this in /s/noshitsherlock

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But isn't Windows itself a virus?

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