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I spend my working life trying to improve computer architecture to protect against exploits.
XP hasn't been patched for over six years there are literally dozens of remotely exploitable security problems in it and there are far more locally exploitable ones.
It simply doesn't have the mitigations against web browser exploits and will never be able to run versions of web browsers with mitigations for Spectre attacks via JavaScript or fixes for the myriad browser issues discovered since the major browsers dropped support.
In a nutshell anyone competent could completely take over your computer simply by you visiting a malicious webpage and you would never know until your data or your money or your identity was stolen.
Not true!
Javascripts were banned many years ago from this XP box
That was covered on page-1
Other exploits were also mitigated years ago without resorting to Microslop security updates
In a nutshell, no competent person could ever completely take over my XP box simply by having me visiting a malicious webpage