Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• zewm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I hope this is a sarcastic joke.

  If it’s not, support means updates. More importantly security updates.

  There is a reason you don’t put a windows XP machine on the internet.

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.

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    • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Noooooo. There was an article in the last 6 months about someone connecting a windows xp to the internet just to see what happened, and within 10 minutes it had been scanned and infected. They repeated the experiment several times.

      It’s child’s play (like, literally script kiddie level) to run automated scans and if a vulnerability, like a really old operating system, is found to then attack it.

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      • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Well, security through obscurity never really did work

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The “support” most importantly includes security updates. You better bet every hacking group has been working at finding fresh zero days for Windows 10 and is stockpiling them to start hammering any PCs that can’t be upgraded this October

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe I’m remembering it wrong, but didn’t MS push important security updates to Win7 even after end of support?

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They are doing that only for paying users for 10

      …microsoft.com/…/windows-10-supports-ends-on-octo…

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    • Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That was an exceptional case, I think with the WannaCry malware. Not something they’ll regularly do.

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• Atmoro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Think of it this way:

  Would you rather leave door wide open and signs saying come inside and take all the info about me, along with all my moment

  Or

  Have your data, & money protected in all kinds of defense systems so it makes billions times harder to take all of that

  That’s what security updates are for. Same for other apps as well when they find things bad actors will try to exploit

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In fairness, after October that security system will still be in place. The difference is that as soon as attackers finds a bypass, the security system will be worthless against future threats

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    • sevan@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some exploits that have already been discovered that people have been sitting on in anticipation of support ending soon.

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