Windows 7 Offer ??
Running Windows 7 using Google as browser. This morning while online a new window popped up supposedly from Microsoft offering a download to update drivers on Windows 7. I'm always skeptical of thes...
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USAFBILL wrote:
I always ignore those updates as they are usually not from Microsoft and Window is not really receiving updates as far as I know. I am still using Windows 7 and see no need to update anything except 3rd party security
This is exactly the thinking that keep those of us who work in Enterprise IT shaking our heads? Windows 7 will continue to receive regular security patches and updates until Jan 2020.
Blocking MS security updates is playing vulnerability roulette, in which the odds overwhelmingly favor hackers. I seriously doubt anyone would consciously want to open a backdoor that compromises one's own system. Worse when a compromised system is used as a zombie to attack other users.
