Originally Posted By: Gordon S
There are workarounds, but some are just a nuisance. Win7 didn't do that. Win2k didn't do that.


Of course they didn't because it was the wild, wild west with those old OS's. There were hacked copies of Win2K and Win 7 easily available for anybody to use. My nephew was a teenage hacker who had his copy and I had a guy I met at a computer show build me a new box 15 or so years ago with a hacked copy of Win 7. My nephew is now making about 150K with Citibank as an IT manager. I bought him a legal copy of Win2K so he could get his certs going.

The thing that so many people don't get is data breaches are not just some kid sitting in his mothers basement, they're highly organized international crime syndicates, many government backed by Russia, China, N. Korea etc. We're talking about billions and billions of dollars. MS decided the only way to get a handle on this was to control the OS as much as possible. That's why they're constantly pushing people to upgrade to Win 10. They have no control over older OS's, too many unauthorized copies around. The overarching reason for all these updates is security. Even if any one of us is highly unlikely to be targeted or affected individually, globally it's a huge problem.

It's similar to this Coronavirus thing. It's affected just a tiny fraction of the number of people who have died from the flu each year yet the whole world is in a panic over this. Why? Nobody has a good handle on it yet, China is fudging their numbers and you can't trust them anyway so everybody is freaking out.

Same thing is going on with computer viruses and malware. The difference is those don't have the potential to literally kill you but financially they're a very big deal. MS isn't concerned with any one individual's PC, it's the worldwide ecosystem of PC's and stopping the spread of these very sophisticated little effing pieces of software criminals keep coming up with.

You'll never stop some systems getting infected because certain otherwise very smart people are stupid when it comes to this. They use "password", "12345" and crap like that for passwords. They click on very clever email links that fool people who are not paying attention to what the email url looks like. So some systems are always going to get infected, the question is how to stop it from spreading?

To me, we all need to do our small part, only go online with Win 10 and let MS do their thing with updates. Yes, they might mess with software that is important to you. Well, getting a flu shot every year messes with some people too but overall it's very necessary.

Bob

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