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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)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I saw someone suggest they connect their switch dock directly to the internet elsewhere on Lemmy. Granted the attack surface for a switch is basically non existent but if people are suggesting that then certainly people are still connecting their other machines directly to their modems/CPEs as well

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That would be Nintendo themselves. The fools recommend port forwarding everything to the Switch.

How to Set Up a Router's Port Forwarding for a Nintendo Switch Console

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s not a DMZ, at Nintendo we say your Switch is now in Donkey Kong Country