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[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This feels like it would be dangerous but let's say you have a good av how bad would it be?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago

Like if you took a 100% non-vaxed person and sent them on a European brothel tour in 1350.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Still bad, they are running with whatever vulnerabilities existed at the time and all those are known by now.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Way less dangerous than people say.

Unless you do stupid shit like plug in unknown USB sticks or put a public IP on your PC you will be mostly fine.

[–] extracheese@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you manage to find an updated browser and don't host any network service it shouldn't be too dangerous.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

You are still vulnerable to every kind of vulnerability in every program that processes a file you download. Particularly parsers (e.g. XML, images, PDFs,...) tend to have a lot of those over the years.

If he's checking his bank account on there then you're still pretty bad. Downloading dubious cracked software is never a good start.