oleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 7 months agoA Windows XP machine's life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PCwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1368arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1340arrow-down1external-linkA Windows XP machine's life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PCwww.pcgamer.comoleorun@real.lemmy.fanM to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoAccording to Wikipedia, it used to be called Internet Connection Firewall in early versions of XP and then was rebranded to Windows Firewall and turned on automatically in SP2.
According to Wikipedia, it used to be called Internet Connection Firewall in early versions of XP and then was rebranded to Windows Firewall and turned on automatically in SP2.