Comment by netsharc
2 years ago
Do the zombie botnets still search for jurassic OSes to exploit? I feel like connecting the XP system to the Internet might be fine because all the botnets are searching for unpatched Windows 10 systems, maybe 8, 7, but not XP...
What is the cost for someone running a botnet to probe for old OSs also? They can just take something off the shelf and run it on someone elses machine.
If any random probe targeting Win10 has a 1% success rate, and similar probe targeting XP has a 0.01% success rate, what probes would you let your botnet send out?
Probing for obscure OS that isn't there on the other end = opportunity cost.
> what probes would you let your botnet send out?
Both probably. I don't see where the "opportunity cost" is when you can trivially do both. Please describe the opportunity cost in detail; that is what I am asking about.