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[=Snake=]

Microsoft unexpectedly drops Windows 7 support for some ancient CPUs
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-unexpectedly-drops-windows-7-support-for-some-ancient-cpus/

Thanks, mchain, for that link. Now I know, why I needed 4 W7-installations caused by important updates!!!
Shame on those, who do things like that!

[mchain]

@ =Snake=,

Consider yourself lucky to be able to run what amounts to a museum piece.       I lost my Pentium III's a long time ago, PSU burnouts.  Besides, nothing lasts anyway.

[polonus]

Microsoft ends support for Windows 7 and 8.1 on the Microsoft forums. Security update support for Windows 7 ends on Jan 14th 2020, while for Windows 8.1 one could reckon with updates until Jan 10th 2023, when it sounds likely that Microsoft might no longer exist by that time.

It is to be understood, that Microsoft and hardware firms will decide on what hardware and drivers are still available and what goes obsolete over time, as marketing strategies get more and more relentless all the time.

Probably our friend, =Snake=, has now landed in that respect between Scylla and Charybdis or as they say in the USA "between a rock and a hard stone". That for using the Windows platform for almost half a century 

polonus

[mchain]

NSA deletes scores of call records over ‘technical irregularities’
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/394791-nsa-deletes-scores-of-call-records-over-technical-irregularities

[=Snake=]

Probably our friend, =Snake=, has now landed in that respect between Scylla and Charybdis or as they say in the USA "between a rock and a hard stone". That for using the Windows platform for almost half a century 

Yes, indeed. Right now, I installed W7 the 6th time with only 9 updates including SP1.

BTW: DJBone helped to download and install the full version of 'W7 SP1 update pack 2.88
        32bit' from WinFuture. Download and installation were ok, but until now, I couldn't find
        the 273 updates from there!!!
 
=Snake=

[mchain]

Probably our friend, =Snake=, has now landed in that respect between Scylla and Charybdis or as they say in the USA "between a rock and a hard stone". That for using the Windows platform for almost half a century 

Yes, indeed. Right now, I installed W7 the 6th time with only 9 updates including SP1.

BTW: DJBone helped to download and install the full version of 'W7 SP1 update pack 2.88
        32bit' from WinFuture. Download and installation were ok, but until now, I couldn't find
        the 273 updates from there!!!
 
=Snake=

I've a suspicion you can also find your 273 updates here:  https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=Windows%207

[=Snake=]

Probably our friend, =Snake=, has now landed in that respect between Scylla and Charybdis or as they say in the USA "between a rock and a hard stone". That for using the Windows platform for almost half a century 

Yes, indeed. Right now, I installed W7 the 6th time with only 9 updates including SP1.

BTW: DJBone helped to download and install the full version of 'W7 SP1 update pack 2.88
        32bit' from WinFuture. Download and installation were ok, but until now, I couldn't find
        the 273 updates from there!!!

I've a suspicion you can also find your 273 updates here:  https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=Windows%207

Sorry, mchain, but I don't know, how you mean it, for the 273 updates are already installed, but I don't see them in 'installed updates! Why?

[mchain]

Using Microsoft Update Catalog is meant to be a manual way of updating your system(s).  You'd be able to download each update you require and save each one for future use, should you ever have need of them again.

I think you are saying you already have the 273 updates installed but they are not showing in Win 7 Updates.  Correct?

[=Snake=]

I think you are saying you already have the 273 updates installed but they are not showing in Win 7 Updates.  Correct?

Yes.

[bob3160]

Using Microsoft Update Catalog is meant to be a manual way of updating your system(s).  You'd be able to download each update you require and save each one for future use, should you ever have need of them again.

I think you are saying you already have the 273 updates installed but they are not showing in Win 7 Updates.  Correct?

I think you would be much better off doing this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/255540/the-last-windows-7-iso-youll-ever-need-how-to-slipstream-the-convenience-rollup/

[=Snake=]

I think you would be much better off doing this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/255540/the-last-windows-7-iso-youll-ever-need-how-to-slipstream-the-convenience-rollup/

Thanks, Bob, for the link, but I don't trust MS anymore. Who can tell, if there's everything ok with?

[bob3160]

I think you would be much better off doing this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/255540/the-last-windows-7-iso-youll-ever-need-how-to-slipstream-the-convenience-rollup/

Thanks, Bob, for the link, but I don't trust MS anymore. Who can tell, if there's everything ok with?

If you don't trust MS, why are you using Windows

[=Snake=]

I think you would be much better off doing this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/255540/the-last-windows-7-iso-youll-ever-need-how-to-slipstream-the-convenience-rollup/

Thanks, Bob, for the link, but I don't trust MS anymore. Who can tell, if there's everything ok with?

If you don't trust MS, why are you using Windows

Now you're unpolite. But (if you want) see my sig. 

[bob3160]

I think you would be much better off doing this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/255540/the-last-windows-7-iso-youll-ever-need-how-to-slipstream-the-convenience-rollup/

Thanks, Bob, for the link, but I don't trust MS anymore. Who can tell, if there's everything ok with?

If you don't trust MS, why are you using Windows

Now you're unpolite. But (if you want) see my sig. 

That's not un-polite. You made the comment that you don't trust Microsoft.

[polonus]

A persistent threat that cannot be underestimated by av and cybersecurity forces alike,
and should be analyzed, namely Nation State's APT Advanced Persistent Adware:

Read all about this here:
https://www.boozallen.com/s/insight/blog/advanced-persistent-adware.html

At the base of this is  Advanced JavaScript-Based In-Memory Stage 1 Downloader  (fully obfuscated).
From that story

additional code retrieved from the C2 server is advanced and and given its ability to execute arbitrary code could be used as an implant for exfiltrating data and receiving further tasking outside of its adware capabilities.

Any adware provider could be hijacked for such nefarious state hacker's purposes.

The more reason for you all to work a third party script blocker and adblocker alike.

I write this post to you in Cliqz with one private data point being removed on this very page where I am writing,

polonus (volunteer website security analyst and website error-hunter)