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Message: [QUOTE="jul, post: 166656, member: 210"] I understand, that's a difficult situation, especially when it's a shift toward an entirely different system with relatives that are mostly clueless when it comes to anything computing and would be completely lost without the pair of old ass programs they rely on to do the only things they do with a computer. But here's the thing; your family is at risk with that computer. It's bordering on Russian roulette to do anything important with it. I mean we're talking about a system that won't receive any further security updates/patches, ever, even for critical security flaws... Which implies that sensitive transactions are a big no-no with it, with credit cards typically but not only, pretty much everything done with it is at risk, such as mails, accounts credentials everywhere... Even if it's exclusively used for entertainment purpose, just the fact that it's connected to the network is enough to render it as an attack vector/spying device on the whole home, that's what it means to have an outdated OS, the system is open to cyberattacks. It doesn't mean it will happen, it means it can, big time. [/QUOTE]

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