• JohnWorks
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    26 days ago

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

    • Sanctus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      26 days ago

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

    • slazer2au@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      26 days 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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      26 days ago

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

      • taladar
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        26 days 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.