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Miguel Angel Vico Alba #:
This puts Windows 10 in a completely different category from Windows 7, which is now entirely unsupported in terms of system-level security.

Thank you for clarifying.

I suspect that my old Windows 7 laptop is likely fine because I've basically reduced to a storage device and dummy test signals receiver--due to its spec's. It's rarely online or even running and when it is, its network connection is manually controlled using the tactics in my OP.

Interestingly, my Windows 10 pc was hit a few years ago by a fake update that hit millions of Windows 10 pc's around the world. There was no way to detect it because the hackers spoofed as Microsoft, itself. Of course, this is my desktop that's almost always running and online so...

Then again, my Windows 11 laptop is fine too.
 
While I am against using systems older than Windows 10, myself, I do have clients that have been using Windows XP and its good oldie, mail service, up until only few months ago. The only reason that they finally upgraded was because windows mail, and i dont think that was its name was it?, no longer loaded half of the html email any longer. They have never been hacked as far as they or I know, and i was always impressed even more, each time that I went over to their place to clean the system and the dust out of the box. The main reason that they werent hacked is purely due to the "tactics" we are discussing above; and it was rarely left connected to the www for longer than 1 hour when not being actually used by the client or myself; even tho the client did use it almost daily.
 
Michael Charles Schefe #:
The only reason that they finally upgraded was because windows mail, and i dont think that was its name was it?

It was either Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail. I want to say that Windows Mail was in Windows 98, and Windows Live Mail was in Windows XP, but don't quote me on that. We are going a ways back here.

Michael Charles Schefe #:
The main reason that they werent hacked is purely due to the "tactics" we are discussing above; and it was rarely left connected to the www for longer than 1 hour when not being actually used by the client or myself; even tho the client did use it almost daily.

I have to agree. Online habits are a big factor in safety. Online gaming, which requires heavy 2-way data transmission, is likely the biggest online risk.

 
Ryan L Johnson #:

It was either Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail. I want to say that Windows Mail was in Windows 98, and Windows Live Mail was in Windows XP, but don't quote me on that. We are going a ways back here.

I have to agree. Online habits are a big factor in safety. Online gaming, which requires heavy 2-way data transmission, is likely the biggest online risk.

yeah i will never understand why so many users leave their computers online overnight. That is the hardest thing to teach new business clients is to disable the internet when it is not required for work.

 
Michael Charles Schefe #:

yeah i will never understand why so many users leave their computers online overnight. That is the hardest thing to teach new business clients is to disable the internet when it is not required for work.

In my case, the reason is MFT swing trading in which profitable trades are held overnight (futures--no swaps). I guess that it depends on the type of business that one is engaged in.

Although a VPS could alleviate that, I'm a fan of good home networks and pc's instead of VPS's. To me, a VPS is an additional variable subject to Murphy's Law. I apply a similar principle to backups. It's my variation of the KISS principle--KILS (keep it local, stupid), if you will.

 
Ryan L Johnson #:

In my case, the reason is MFT swing trading in which profitable trades are held overnight (futures--no swaps). I guess that it depends on the type of business that one is engaged in.

Although a VPS could alleviate that, I'm a fan of good home networks and pc's instead of VPS's. To me, a VPS is an additional variable subject to Murphy's Law. I apply a similar principle to backups. It's my variation of the KISS principle--KILS (keep it local, stupid), if you will.

yeah, by users i was meaning non traders. obviously traders are more likely to require internet access overnight.

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