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

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Published 2024-05-18
What happens if you connect Windows 2000 to the Internet in 2024?
While researching I also saw this video which was similar, but he used real hardware:    • I Exposed a Windows 2000 Machine to t...  
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All Comments (21)
  • @Umbreedon
    > connects to the internet > immediately gets infected by a 20 year old worm
  • @hn1f
    Next up: What happens if you expose Red Star OS to the internet
  • @skycaptain95
    Wow. You get hacked and infected with the Sasser worm literally within two minutes even with SP4. I'm not sure what i expected.
  • @widar28
    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)
  • 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
  • @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.
  • @xanlord2k
    Bro got infected with blaster/sasser in under a minute 💀
  • @KK-bk8kj
    Virus mentioned around 5:15 which destroyed motherboards was called CIH or more commonly "Chernobyl" it did override bios memory corrupting it.
  • @Mihot7
    4:00 sasser joined the game Edit: wow I never got that many likes tysm!
  • @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!
  • @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!
  • @RC-nq7mg
    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.
  • @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.
  • @eyelmejor1388
    i just discovered your channel, its great, keep it up!
  • @leemack4562
    you made my day with this video! the trivia was a nice touch
  • 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...