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>>mouse_+(OP)
That whole thing is manufactured drama by some youtubers.

I can't say if the infections themselves are real or staged, but they clearly and explicitly set the OS up for failure: they give it a public internet IP, enable file sharing, RDP, remote assistance, then disable the firewall for good measures. No modern OS would fare better in those circumstances.

>>tredre+99
AFAICT there was a single YouTube video that started this[0] and they mentioned explicitly several times that this mainly works because they put it in "the open internet" as a server. Disabling the firewall was the icing on the cake and yet that is all sites that reported this[1], no mention about how the computer was not behind, well, anything that a desktop in the last couple of decades would be (and most likely beyond that, i remember around 2002 when i had a modem, i had to visit a web page at my ISP to allow me open various ports as many things were disabled by default).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/connected-windows-xp-internet...

>>badsec+df4
The firewall was disabled by default in XP until SP2...

>>jmgao+yh4
Yes, but in the video it isn't and he explicitly disables it. Windows XP even warns about it after he does it.