[Lowfer] A Question to Windows-7 users

[Douglas Williams]

The IT department at my employer upgraded all our computers (hundreds, if
not thousands of them) to Windows 7 shortly after Microsoft announced they
were no longer going to support XP after such and such date. Trust me, our
IT department never upgrades *anything* unless they have a good reason to.

-Doug KB4OER

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:06 AM, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

> : 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
>