• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You’re missing my point. Why would they care about not being able to install any new software when they don’t install new software as is.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand your sentence. Who is talking about intentionally installing any software?

      I am not referring to them opening an E-mail and reading a request to “Please install this important but suspicious package”. I’m talking about them opening a strange but possibly normal E-mail, and BAM - the content of the message abuses a Z-Sort Address Buffer Exploit invented in the year 2018, patched in the year 2018 by Windows, but not downloaded by them, ever. This exploit then remotely installs whatever without them ever knowing. Even if they never put useful information in that computer, they’re at least part of a botnet that victimizes DDOS targets.

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          1 year ago

          My apologies. I think I overread the statement of “all they use it for is internet and email”, a line often used to justify never updating a computer.

          I’m basically with you. The most popular operating system in the world, whatever it is at the time, should force automatic updates.