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Re:Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003) by vmception on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:46AM (#28592721)
These convenient Windows builds on torrent sites can be compromised with keyloggers, preconfigured remote desktop backdoors and crypto stealing packages now :(

It is interesting how the use of these underground builds are prevalent enough to be worthwhile to compromise

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Re:Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003) by rkagerer on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:29AM (#28593079)
On reflection those random downloads altruistically shared back in the day by passionate geeks on otherwise sketchy-looking sites were never as harmful to me as the user-hostile, telemetry-sucking, ad-filled crap clogging up the modern appstore.
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