If I keep all incoming connections blocked, but also all outgoing connections blocked except my browser (no MS/Win service is communicating with anything online), would my attack surface be just the browser? So it wouldn’t matter if Win is not updated?

JASN_DE
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just the browser

That’s still the main entry for malware.

@PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml
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how? don’t you need to actually download and run some .exe .bat .cmd .msi etc etc to get some malware?

JASN_DE
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No. That still works of course, but there are other ways. You wouldn’t believe how much stuff your browser actually executes.

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