To answer OP and everyone else weirdly defending not staying up to date - yes the browser will “still work” on Windows 7, but it will not receive updates with, as everyone has discussed above, important security fixes, patches and any new features. Get into a collision, you’ll be far safer in a more modern car with up-to-date safety features and is engineered for optimum collision protection compared to a 1970s era sedan with bench seats and a lap I like the car analogy here. Think of it this way, you can drive an older car that’s not designed to modern safety standards and if you avoid accidents, be completely safe. It largely comes down to what you’re doing online, what sites you’re accessing, how good you are about what links you click on, what information you have stored on the machine, etc. So I can’t say with 100% certainty that you’ll be safe with malware programs and an obsolete OS. Your chances will be far less, especially if you have good security discipline.īut you’ll be far safer with the second option. You can connect a computer with an obsolete OS and no virus protection, firewall, or malware program and be safe, until someone uses an attack your machine hasn’t been hardened against.īut you could also be on a fully updated machine with a modern OS and a suite of security programs and still end up having your system breached.

If you are online with this machine, you will be SAFER, but I don’t know if you’d be SAFE. If you’re not surfing the net, are you just using the computer for email? What’s the use case here?

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