[Lowfer] A Question to Windows-7 users

[KD7JYK DM09]

: Just don't keep any personal information, do any online banking, etc. on
: your XP machines.

Rambling daily observations of nothing bad ever happening....

They were secure then, but not now, and even less when nobody is looking for
that OS to hack?

I went to one site that said "Less than 0.5% of our traffic uses your
browser" with a suggestion to upgrade.  I'm think, yeah, was never hacked
and less than 0.5% of that now, sounds a lot more secure than the hype would
lead one to believe.

Windows 3.11 would be exponentially more secure if the sites would
accept a connection from that old of a browser, and, according to my mom who
still uses Firefox V1, still works on a daily basis.  I personally double
checked that last August.  The issue isn't the OS or browser version, it's
the really poorly designed, bloated and insecure websites that are the
issue.  Aside from that, the security measures from then, that weren't
bypassed, are less likely to be now, so even more security by obscurity.

7 Pro, on the other hand with numerous security measures, which we got just
a few months ago, has up to several attempts against it per day.

The problem I see daily is slow bloated sites connected to questionable
sources forcing one to use a susceptible OS with potentially non-effective
security software, that is, most everything currently used.

Kurt