We have a good paid for anti-virus programme installed on our old desktop which I'm assuming runs on Windows 7. Would this still protect us against hackers does anybody know? My laptop has Windows 10 but so far I'm not impressed by it.
Nice-ish weather all day while I'm stuck in waiting for Fedex and then when I take the dog out it lashes down with rain exactly halfway through my walk. I did salvage a brand new unused green waste bag out of a hedge though so worth getting wet  Fences down and tiles missing off roofs all over the place.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My laptop has windows 7 and is 8 years old and I've never installed an "update" since I got it. I've never had any problems, unlike Hubby whose laptop has windows 10 and has no end of problems, usually when it just sits installing endless "updates" and there's no way to disable automatic updates. I know I'm a cynic, but I'm sure microsoft are almost as bad as Apple when it  comes to "updates" to suit them and not their customers.
I don’t have many updates on Apple, and when I do it’s usually a security update taking just minutes. I wouldn’t ever not install one.  But then I do banking, office  work shopping etc, so need it to be theft proof.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
My laptop is running 10 and I've taped up the camera just because so many apps seem to have free access to it for some reason. I've switched off as many apps as I can and disabled their permissions but I'm sure it's still full of stealth data harvesting. I tried to reset the alarm tune on my phone this morning and it requested permission to access all my data, files and photos before I could do that. Needless to say I'm sticking with the default 'morning flower' alarm for those rare occasions when the kids forget to wake me up hours before I need it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I went to shut down my PC and got 'Windows 7 is doing 3 updates' Â If support for 7 has ended why do I get the suspicion that those updates aren't for my benefit?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I just turned the 'puter back on so it could waste time configuring things now rather than when I need to get work done tomorrow and after it spent 20 mins doing that it installed another update when I shut down
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I know I'm a cynic, but I'm sure microsoft are almost as bad as Apple when it
 comes to "updates" to suit them and not their customers.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.