Nah, not worried. I remember Microsoft telling EVERYONE that when support for XP ended it would be open season by every hacker on the planet. Then the bloggers all wrote the same stuff and before long even the news media had people convinced their XP systems would be hacked after support ended. They made it out like the coming of the apocalypse. And like the Y2K scare, it never happened.
Hackers are going to create nasties for the most used systems, they're not going to focus their efforts on OS that are hardly used anymore. Not only that but I don't believe that Microsoft makes OS's so bad that they need to be patched every month or else all hell well break lose. By the end of an OS life it should be more than well patched. IMO Microsoft support patches is more about gathering telemetry info than about fixing serious problems.
Getting hacked is more about people using iffy things like Adobe Flash, leaving ports open, not using adequate firewalls, malware and virus protection and not using their noodles when surfing the web.
Yes I know support for W7 is ending soon, and I don't care! On that day I will disable the services: Windows Update, Cryptographic Services & Background Intelligent Transfer Service...saving me system resources. And if someday the internet changes enough that W7 won't work, well then I'll just use my Linux Mint
Hackers are going to create nasties for the most used systems, they're not going to focus their efforts on OS that are hardly used anymore. Not only that but I don't believe that Microsoft makes OS's so bad that they need to be patched every month or else all hell well break lose. By the end of an OS life it should be more than well patched. IMO Microsoft support patches is more about gathering telemetry info than about fixing serious problems.
Getting hacked is more about people using iffy things like Adobe Flash, leaving ports open, not using adequate firewalls, malware and virus protection and not using their noodles when surfing the web.
Yes I know support for W7 is ending soon, and I don't care! On that day I will disable the services: Windows Update, Cryptographic Services & Background Intelligent Transfer Service...saving me system resources. And if someday the internet changes enough that W7 won't work, well then I'll just use my Linux Mint
Remember that WannaCry virus that brought down hospitals, manufacutring plants, and grandmas? Yeah, Win 7. And that was with support. But hey, go ahead and play digital Russian roulette. Makes no difference to me.
Also, Linux Mint is not safe either.
EDIT: I am not trying to be mean but what you say is just not sound advice. Like at all.
EDIT 2: Your Y2K reference was an actual thing and everyone making a big deal about it is why there was no disaster. Everyone had enough warning and ample time to apply patches. Boom. No Y2K.
You can also thank the "Y2K scare" for fixing most of the underlying problems with computers that had existed in one fashion or another (hardware and software) up until the year 2000.
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"This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined." -Baruch Spinoza
Last edited by John McClane; 01-31-19 at 04:58 PM.