FreedomAdvocate

What unjust laws? Immigration laws? People that break the law getting detained is unjust? Is that you, Jasmine Crocket?

Again though - best practice for using an EOL OS in 2025 mean that an attack like wannacry wouldn’t affect you, since you wouldn’t have the SMB ports exposed to the internet. You’d also have AV software - Defender at a minimum, which is fantastic - and the Windows firewall on.

Windows XP came out in 2001. Wannacry was 16 years later. Windows XP was from basically the beginning of the consumer internet, a different era. Windows 10 has a quarter of a century of knowledge and development on top of that. With each subsequent OS, the number of exploits that would get through the basic windows firewall and defender AV plummeted. An attack can’t get through on port X if port X is closed. Even if port X was open, the windows firewall or defender would stop it and warn the user. It’s almost like the developers learn from the past.

If you disable the firewall and AV, sure, you can get in trouble. That’s not following even the most basic online safety steps though.

It’s not flat out wrong though. Best practices for when your OS is EOL are different to best practices for a currently supported OS.

All those “experiments” where people go online with a new install of xp and are compromised in minutes disable windows firewall and don’t use any antivirus software. You seem like an expert - is that best practice? Do regular people just turn off the Windows firewall and disable their AV?

Believe it or not, firewalls and AV still stop unpatched security vulnerabilities - the security patches just mean they don’t have to.

So windows 8 computers that connect to the Internet just become compromised?

Is it? How?

Enterprises dont need to buy new license keys every time they buy a new machine. That’s the whole point of Microsoft’s enterprise licensing.

Absolutely you will be able to. How many previous versions of Windows have exploits that don’t require the user to do anything other than be connected to the Internet for their machine to be compromised?

Running out of ram isn’t a problem in itself. You want your ram to be in use as much as possible ideally, otherwise why do you have it?

By running out I mean you’re getting issues caused by something needing ram and it not being able to get any, not simply all your ram being in use.

You think windows 10 just becomes unsafe because it stops getting security updates?

Lol.

Not when their sole purpose is to assist in breaking the law.

Who said “works on my machine”? Not me. You can test it on a hundred different machines and OS versions and it’s flawless on them all, and you’ll still get people having errors on their machines. I feel like you must have thought you found a “gotcha!” and just stopped reading my comment, because I explained why.