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tonyl wrote:

Hear, hear. We had all this malarkey with the demise of Windows XP, and here I am, still using it on two machines. I’ve had no malware, my computers haven’t exploded, and no boxing glove has come out of my screen and punched me on the nose.

While I’m forced to use 8.1 at work, at home I still use XP SP3 for day-to-day main machine (banking included) and 7 SP1 Ultimate x86 just for some banking that now refuses to work on XP and a few programs that cannot be run on XP. And no, my pc hasn’t morphed into a <mark class=”ipsMatch1″>purple </mark>mushroom,  then exploded… on the contrary I’m posting from it right now, and I only added MBAM Premium 3.5.1 to it when MSE stopped being updatable by hand (= June 4, 2019).  One who is using a perfectly good 7 SP1 setup may keep on it as is up to 2023, and then add some real-time antivirus to it and remain still longer. One’s worst enemy is PEBCAK… if that is kept under control, all the rest is FUD. YMMV, of course!

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