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It’s not flat out wrong though. Best practices for when your OS is EOL are different to best practices for a currently supported OS.
All those “experiments” where people go online with a new install of xp and are compromised in minutes disable windows firewall and don’t use any antivirus software. You seem like an expert - is that best practice? Do regular people just turn off the Windows firewall and disable their AV?
Believe it or not, firewalls and AV still stop unpatched security vulnerabilities - the security patches just mean they don’t have to.