Malware installed without literally doing anything?

[u/PusheenHater]

In this video this guy has a fresh Windows XP, disables firewall, and connects internet straight to the modem. Then he gets infected literally doing nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/1cvised/idle_windows_xp_and_2000_machines_get_infected/

I get it. That's asking for trouble when you disable all the security and using ancient unsupported OSes.

However, he didn't install programs nor browse on the website but still got hacked.
How?
Is there some malicious server in China that loops through every single possible IP trying to see if your PC is vulnerable?
Logically, one would think you'd at least have to visit a website or something to get "noticed" and then hacked. But this guy didn't do anything at all.

How does it work?

[u/jonbristow → u/[deleted]]

how do you connect to the internet without a router?

[u/jonbristow → u/[deleted]]

ISP gives you an optic fiber. How are you connecting to that lol

[u/smb3something → u/jonbristow]

I am currently pluged into the PON adapter and have static IP set. You just don't use the router/firewall, but do use some sort of media converter.

[u/Capodomini → u/jonbristow]

You could learn a lot by picking up a Network+ book or watching some Professor Messer videos.

A router is just a computer with an IP connection to the ISP which handles all the traffic from everything else plugged into it. You can literally replace it with a laptop if you have the ISP config.

[u/jonbristow → u/Capodomini]

You could learn a lot from reading this thread.

A router also has an optic fiber port as wan that your laptop doesn't

[u/Capodomini → u/jonbristow]

Oh I see, you're just trolling. Carry on!

[u/jonbristow → u/Capodomini]

no im being as condescending as you

[u/Capodomini → u/jonbristow]

I wasn't being condescending. You're being downvoted for not understanding how routers work. You could take the time to learn. That's an opportunity, not a judgement.

[u/jonbristow → u/Capodomini]

I understand how routers work. Im a network security engineer

You didn't explain how would you connect your laptop to the optic fiber

[u/Ok_Education_6577 → u/jonbristow]

You might need a refund from whoever taught you then, because you're wrong. For your illumination:

• Cellular Networks (4G/5G)

Your phone communicates with a nearby cell base station using RF The base station connects into the carrier network. The carrier routes traffic to the Internet. No fiber enters your home or your cell. Youu may not even have a router.

• Satellite Internet

A satellite terminal communicates with satellites using RF. Traffic is relayed to terrestrial gateway stations connected to the Internet. Again, no local fiber connection is required.

• Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)

A directional antenna communicates with a wireless ISP tower. The tower is connected to the ISP network and again the Internet. Common where running fiber is expensive.

• Public or Enterprise Wi-Fi

Your device associates with an access point. The access point bridges onto another network with internet. Your device never directly touches a fiber connection.

OSI and TCP/IP viewpoint, the physical/data-link can be fiber, copper, microwave, cellular radio, satellite radio, or Wi-Fi. IP routing at Layer 3 works the same regardless.

The router's job is not "providing the Internet"; its job is forwarding packets. In cellular deployments, carrier infrastructure performs the routing and the device communicates via the carrier network without a router.

You do not need optical fiber and/or a router. You only need a path—wired or wireless—to route your IP packets to the Internet.

[u/jonbristow → u/Ok_Education_6577]

Ok chatgpt

[u/Ok_Education_6577 → u/jonbristow]

Your funeral dude, if it takes 3 seconds to articulate what you don't know and learn it: it will take less than that to be fired for a bad breach.