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Originally posted by ICD
actually, you can buy the CD's or DVD if you want, its optional.

in my world windows is free, beacause i know the right people

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http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=73748

As foaly said, at one point an unpatched XP or 2000 could be compromised in a matter of minutes by someone using a tool to scan the Blaster or Sasser ports, as these exploits were remotely available and could do some serious damage.

Basically, you could plant a file on the computer, set it to run at start up, set the computer to reboot (usually done by causing an "essential" system service to crash) and then you could use the program as you saw fit (if it was something like sub7 or whatever).

In certain machines, you could likely overclock the hardware and permanently damage it. Newer CPUs and Graphics cards would be most at risk.

Currently there aren't any widely-known exploits for Windows XP SP2 + Patches (and when there are, MS usually release patches quickish) so it'll take a lot longer for a PC to be exploited, if it's not in use.

The amount of viruses on a system is usually proportional to the users age (teenagers tend to use things like Limewire to download files, and have no idea that the really small download for the latest hit is actually a virus) and noobishness (even an older person is likely to click "Protect Yourself Now!" in an advertisement).

Ok.

Windows xp SP2 has its own built in firewall.
Protects you against most stuff. So most cases people use SP2 with its firewall(in fact is pretty good before sp2 i use to use sygate personal firewall. use to pick up intusions all the time after sp2 went on it picked up nothing. so 3months of testing i removed it and now only use windows xp with sp2. Built in firewall)


What can hacker do?

Well dial phone numbers charge them to you?(maybe not sure if that can be down via boardband /cable maybe just dial up as it uses your phoneline number. Boardbrand is ADSL uses different line not going out over same line as u make phone calls.)

Your machine can be come spam server sending out x amount of e-mails a minute. Which in return will get your ISP's mail server blacklist.(everything gets bounded back or straight to spam boxes).

Can also result in your internet getting turned of by your ISP. At least until you fix your issue or your told to switch to different ISP.

but generally nothing much to harm you lol. Can't damage your pc. can't really do anything just screw it up and send out thousands of emails all day long lol


If your using it. that would ean all your data, usernames and password can be stolen. banking details, paypal, cerdit card details all that rubbish,)