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		ksk on Sept 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is anybody still using Windows 95? I am curious to know what security holes you can exploit in a fully patched system with a firewall.

mywittyname on Sept 8, 2020 [–]

Depends on what you're letting past the firewall. Even ICMP requests could (not sure if this was ever patched) be used to DoS a Win95 machine. There are several open TCP/IP bugs with Win9x, the newest one being from 2008.

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