What happens if you connect Windows 2000 to the Internet in 2024?

What happens if you connect Windows 2000 to the Internet in 2024?

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[Umbreedon]

> connects to the internet
> immediately gets infected by a 20 year old worm

[skycaptain]

Wow. You get hacked and infected with the Sasser worm literally within two minutes even with SP4. I'm not sure what i expected.

[hnf]

Next up: What happens if you expose Red Star OS to the internet

[lezlienewlands]

Damn, Sasser is still active on the internet?
That's crazy.

[widar]

Your Win2k was infected from the get go.... man that brings me back. I can't believe that the Sasser is still active after over 20 years... this was also my first contact with Computer Security ^^ A freshly bought brand new computer from the local store, and as soon as the 56k modem finished, 20 seconds later I got the "System is shutting down" message. it is crazy how vulnerable Windows was (and partly still is)

[MickmickWashesThings_Official]

4:30 Actually this happens when an attack fails. There is a similar video of exposing a real machine running Windows 2000, it kept rebooting and blue screening

[xanlordk]

Bro got infected with blaster/sasser in under a minute 💀

[Mihot]

4:00 sasser joined the game
Edit: wow I never got that many likes tysm!

[lillywho]

7:22 If you wanted to revive Windows Update in earnest, you could install Legacy Update which redirects it to a community-hosted reverse-engineered server.

[KK-bkkj]

Virus mentioned around 5:15 which destroyed motherboards was called CIH or more commonly "Chernobyl" it did override bios memory corrupting it.

[MudkipOnYT]

This series is really fun, I don’t know how much more content you can make with it because there aren’t many more versions of Windows but great work!

[RC-nqmg]

Neat to see. Everyone always talks about XP but Win2K was my daily driver untill xp sp2 was released. Win2k was always one of my favorite versions of windows.

[theguy]

suggestion: what happens if you connect windows vista to the internet in 2024

[MIKE_]

I saw somebody write an article about you showing what happens if you connect Windows XP to the internet, it bought me to your channel to see more interesting videos :)

[lethav.delphi]

I just found your channel because of a german article on a website. It's really interesting to see how the old systems "perform" in 2024. :) please go on with the series!

[vrekt]

So is the sasser worm just still running somewhere in the wild looking for machines to infect? Or is somebody hosting it and doing it that way

[jjjacer]

@3:40 i remember seeing that live back in the day via the Blaster worm, basically if you had your windows 2k system directly on the internet with no firewall, there was a good chance that the worm would eventually hit your IP causing this shutdown popup, and then it would start DDoSing windows update.

Man viruses back in the day always were memorable, Nimda, Code Red, Blaster, ILOVEYOU, Melissa. Now days its all just generic trojans and cryptolockers

[teekatas]

boy I miss that old school right click menu animation at 5:28. They don't do that anymore.

[PhantomWorksStudios]

Back in 2015 Microsoft released an emergency update going as far back as windows 2000 bc 2000, XP, vista, etc had this exploit. It was released after wanna cry was spawned and had to do with the rdp of I remeber correctly.

Anyways all I can say is to install that update and then trying this again.

I was amazed that Ms not only quickly released that update but for Windows XP and especially 2000...

[lemonadesnake]

7:18 Updates can be downloaded with Legacy Update