How can you use such an operating system now
If only you knew how many critical systems are running old versions of Windows... It's mind boggling
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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You laugh but the fact that you got a login confirmation notification means he got your password now. He'll just need to guess your email password next and you'll be truly owned. Set up 2fa on your email account if you haven't set it up already.
Jokes on him. I don't even know the password to either account
In the UK, a lot of our government still uses XP and a lot of our public embedded devices (e.g. the tills in the Co-Op) run on Internet Explorer.
Some random Thai hacker using 7 isn't that much of a stretch.
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He's probably using a VM and/or faking his fingerprint.
Clearly they should be using Windows XP instead.
7!!! is a really high number, I doubt there will ever be that many versions of Windows
someone make a c/unexpectedfactoral
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Whatever, windows 7 was sick
How can you use such an operating system now
To be honest, it still works better than Windows 10 or Windows 11.
Problem is it's 3 years past EOL and hasn't received any security updates in that time.
It's functional, just not secure.
There actually are updates to it as for the last three years Microsoft has continued to patch it under the commercial "Extended Security Update" program - that only ended in January 2023.
You just couldn't get them as a home user without doing a lot of tweaking on your own.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's some compromised machine that someone else is controlling for illegal activities.
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.....what's wrong with 10?
You know how when you press the Windows key and are able to type into the searchbar? Prior to 10, this bar did an instant local-only search of your desktop applications and (if you enabled it) select cached documents. Imagine building up the muscle memory of using this to launch applications for a decade or two to the point where you don't even look at the screen anymore when launching apps. Now imagine that Windows 10 comes along and introduces a mandatory internet search that has to complete before it lets you see the local results that you were actually looking for.
Now imagine not being able to forget how snappy it used to be every single time you launch an application. Imagine the annoyance of being punished for a typo by having Edge open up a Bing search instead of the application you were trying to launch. Imagine not noticing the error and waiting 5 seconds for Bing to boot up, only to be confusedly greeted by a search you didn't ask for in a browser you wish you could uninstall. Imagine installing third-party applications to try and restore the old search experience only for it to get regularly broken by OS updates you cannot opt out of and are only sometimes notified of in advance (another "feature" that Windows 10 brought).
IMO Windows 7 was the last "pure" Windows before the power balance at Microsoft tipped in favor of the cloud & sales people.
Woah man, why wouldn't you want your computers key search features to just go straight to bing result? Are you using some kind of crazy computer that has things on physical memory? Fuck that put it all on the cloud man. It's the future.
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At that point you could probably have a middle school just hack them back.
I'm using a Win7 machine at work, because I have to support a system that saw it's last update in 2014. There is actually a Win10 compatible version of this software, but it only supports maybe a third of the chips of the original software, and sadly the ones we use are not among those.
And it can get worse. I've got an oscilloscope that "runs" under a heavily modified version of Win98...
Why you shouldn't develop production grade software for Windows part 25.
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could just be the custom user-agent string configured in whatever browser or script they're running.
A lot of legacy equipment still uses 98/XP machines because it literally just needs to work.
My nuke silo runs temple os.
i'd use windows 7 for daily drive, way better than 8,10 or 11 imo
because it looks so good
To hacking bro
That's obviously Albanian Hacker, creator of Albanian Virus
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