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Is Win7 still secure?

• meibo 5y ago
  No, especially not for non-technical users. I support a popular software package and we run integrity checks on our own binaries - in recent months, the number of people that contact us and send us samples of our binaries infected with some common trojan on Windows 7 has skyrocketed. And that's just infectious malware. IMO, Windows Defender is the greatest thing Microsoft has done with Windows 10.
  • jcun4128 5y ago
    > Windows Defender is the greatest thing Microsoft has done with Windows 10 I have not worried about an anti-virus in a long time, granted I have adblockers/use VMs but idk maybe that's just WD being good. I remember doing tech support work a long time ago and how Malware Bytes was one of the good ones (free) to use/actually worked.
    • MonaroVXR 5y ago
      It's Microsoft Defender. There are a lot things that are turned off by default, otherwise you computer would slow down. Windows 11 is going to turn those things on by default.
• bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  Someone has made a tool that downloads and applies the patches that MS is still giving to the extended support customers and he is pirating. Although I'd like to see people's faces when I tell them that someone is Russian^W Ukrainian...
• EvanAnderson 5y ago
  Windows 7 still receives security updates under the Extended Security Updates (ESU) subscription program. It's unlikely, but possible, that the poster has such a subscription. I have Customers who do because they needed more time to migrate away from legacy applications that functioned under Windows 7 but not under Windows 10 (or, more often, functioned fine but were "unsupported" by the application "manufacturer" under Windows 10).