I just don’t understand how they jumped from version 7 to 24 …

So that’s not good enough for you, but still no proof? If it’s so easy to Google, help me out since I’m so inept.

Still waiting for my laptop to be pwned.

Why are you so resistant to facts?

Thanks for the summary.

I did: “how do you get computer viruses”

Answer: “Computer viruses can be spread via email, with some even capable of hijacking email software to spread themselves. Others may attach to legitimate software, within software packs, or infect code, and other viruses can be downloaded from compromised application stores and infected code repositories.”

Try it yourself. No mention of Windows 7, all about USERS INSTALLING THEM.

QED.

"Honestly not even worth wasting my time. "

ChatGPT, translate!

“I have no actual evidence, but it feels good to me.”

What’s agressive is forcing endless upgrades for no reason. No one can even provide a single source of evidence for these amazing Hollywood viruses besides “everyone knows” or urban legends. You don’t even check into what really happens and happily confirm your bias.

Like I said a million times, you have to purposely run an executable to get these amazing trojans and viruses. Windows 7 doesn’t magically pull them out of the ether and runs them with a 24 style countdown timer.

People. INSTALL. THESE. THINGS. ACTIVELY

They click on things they shouldn’t. I already know I shouldn’t. The end.

Not just from letting the computer run. Explain why I don’t have any of these problems with my oh-so vulnerable 12 year old Windows 7 laptop?

"People have lost millions in crypto from shit like that. " Sources. Links. Explain how it happened. So you’re claiming people with Windows 7 computers also have millions in crypto? What?

It’s called Usenet.

Again, how will this happen? This is just technical illiteracy, my friend.

So nothing at all like the dramatic stuff people have been telling me so far? Hmm, interesting.

That’s nice, what does it report? Cookies? PUP?

That’s amazing, it’s had years to have its field day. Where is it, please?

You guys understand you have to actively install malware and viruses, right? It’s not like on TV with a skull and crossbones appearing on the monitor.

Uh huh, but collecting Blurays is just silly I’ve been told.

Please explain how malware would get on my laptop now in a way that it didn’t, oh, say, in the last 12 years?

Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 … what’s the issue?