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Part 1, The XP That Went Online:
There was a video on youtube a while back talking about how a windows xp computer connected to the internet will get viruses out of thin air. In the video the xp really seems like its getting viruses because it is connected to the internet. You also will see forum posts and what not telling people not to connect xp to the internet. This is all false. A computer using whichever operating system or version cannot get viruses by being connected to the internet, IF this computer is used by a normal generic person(not a corpo pc) and you dont have any ports open(not hosting a server) 99.9% of the world population fits this description. This is excluding user error(clicking virus ads, links, installing malware) So no, the viruses cant just fly into your computer. Zero day? Just who in the world would execute an extremely complicated OS attack specifically tailored to work on your pc and put weeks, months into it so he can get access to your homework folder? Nobody, the average joe is safe. This is the equivalent of fearing an israeli missile strike to your bedroom because the technology exists and was used.