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>>mouse_+(OP)
Back in the days of blaster, if you were connected to a network with infected machines or had a public IP address because you were connected straight into your cable modem, you would get infected in the windows installer before it finished installing. Nowadays, everything is behind NAT and there aren't any infected Windows XP machines left on your local network, so that's not a problem anymore.

>>jmgao+rb4
>Nowadays, everything is behind NAT and there aren't any infected Windows XP machines

All end-user PCs have been behind NAT since the late 90s unless the system was a dialup straggler. Enterprise users raw-dogging the internet only have themselves to blame.

>>snakey+4i4
Even discounting dial-up, this really depends on where you are in the world at the time. PPPoE and direct hookup (via the cable/ADSL modem) are still relatively common where I was at the time that Blaster was roaming around, while some countries have forced CGNAT even before CGNAT became a common word, usually for "protecting the children" like Cleanfeed (and even discounting that, event at the time you could still get IPv4 effortlessly there had been, and certainty there are still, crappy ISPs which don't really care about direct connections).