On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:45:28 -0000 (UTC), Chris
wrote:

Shadow wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:42:26 -0600, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

?Microsoft to end updates to Windows 7?s free AV software, Security
Essentials?

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...ssentials.html

?When support for Windows 7 ends on Jan. 14, Microsoft will also stop
providing new malware signatures for its home-grown Security Essentials
software.?

Ok, this is not good. Microsoft is playing hardball here.

It'll just boost the sale/usage of "compatible with Win 7"
AVs.

Which will disappear just like they did when previous versions of Windows
went out of support. It is ridiculous to try and protect an os that the
vendor won't support with security fixes.

I'm still on XP(and Linux). I ditched Avira when I caught it
phoning home. Not for updates. It was relaying my private, personal
web-browsing data and some files I compiled myself. Probably for my
"safety, security and privacy". They can legally do that. Read the
TOS.

There are numerous top quality free on demand AVs that still
support the almost 20 year old OS. With the advantage that USB-booted
AVs are can't be disabled by zero-day rootkits, like the resident AVs
can.
So what you are saying is I'm be vulnerable to all the attacks
M$ PROMISED.
And never happened?

https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/p...illion-people/

1.2 billion people's data hacked from secure, up-to-date
servers.... is that even possible?
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