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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: Cadillac on January 15, 2020, 03:53:45 AM

Title: windows 7 high security risk as crypto exploit found in audio files
Post by: Cadillac on January 15, 2020, 03:53:45 AM

Simple Question for Avast

Does Avast protect from what this Article is talking about?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/01/14/windows-7-crazy-high-security-risk-as-crypto-exploit-found-in-audio-files/amp/

Thank You

Title: Re: windows 7 high security risk as crypto exploit found in audio files
Post by: polonus on January 15, 2020, 10:44:57 AM

Hi Cadillac,

If you were lucky probably got that last update last night.
Also avast still will support Windows 7 until 2022,
as Avast's Martin Zima tells here: https://blog.avast.com/avast-still-supports-windows-7

But better be safe than sorry and upgrade to Windows 10.
Windows 7, if not with elongated support bought, is dead-in-the-water now.

If need be install a new SSD for a couple of bucks, that's not the cost really.
Then you will have the 4 GB ram necessary to do that final upgrade to Windows 10.

polonus (volunteer 3rd party cold recon website security analyst and website error-hunter)