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’56 Corvette or ’68 Camaro on today’s roads as they are unsafe vehicles. The Federal gov, state gov and county admin just announced this: But the difficulty of upgrading vastly differs, depending on how much stuff you have installed and set up. I am especially baffled whenever I hear the polite recommendation to “update your operating system to the newest version”, which makes it sound like a teeny tiny task that you can do on your Sunday afternoon and be done with it.
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At some point, I’ll upgrade (and probably migrate Windows XP into a Virtual machine), but at the moment, I don’t have enough time in my daily life for such a big project. I have Win 7 as a secondary system for games and I don’t really need it for anything else. And why change a perfectly running system that you’ve spent hundreds of hours to properly set up over the years? Especially power users think like that. I think many people have made the experience that they never actually caught a virus and that their real problems came from other sources, like buggy software, etc.
Dropbox desktop windows 8.1 Patch#
It feels like a really good security patch for Win XP, because the HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System) checks system files and registry for changes, which compensates for the lack of UAC (User Account Control) in Win XP.Īnd I agree with you.
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exe and I’m pretty sure nothing will happen to me.) I always laugh at those folks frantically updating everything, deleting their cookies and not clicking on scary websites and whining about their ‘things suddenly not working since yesterday’ and their latest cryptolocker they ‘caught’ like a cold despite having their expensive anti-virus… haha I click on everything, will insert any USB I found on the street, and fire up any. Security is about stability and updating defies stability.
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And no, I don’t necessarily update comodo or even stupid Flash or anything else. (Oh and everywhere you read about XP now theres always folks fear mongering about security… updates… criminals and scary things… well I use comodo firewall for years now, never had a problem. If someone has a suggestion on what to use instead, please reply here, as I will no doubt be dropping Dropbox likewise, as they are dropping me. I have 2 months left on my annual Dropbox subscription. If I still like them next week I’ll just ask them if they’re planning to drop support for XP. However it seems unlike Dropbox it uploads the whole file again even if only a small part is changed.
Especially considering that almost every program is still available for Windows XP (Firefox in the current version, Skype in the current version etc., still all support Win XP), it’s a real dick move of Dropbox. If it works on my XP machine, that’ll save me.
So, because of one XP machine, I am pushed to replace Dropbox on all my computers and smartphones with another cloud service? Spend several afternoons testing the new service? Besides it would suck if I was the only one in my family who didn’t use Dropbox anymore. And it’s not just “you won’t get any updates any more, but the client will continue working”, no, it’s “the client will deactivate itself”. And then out of nowhere, I find this announcement in my inbox that they’ll drop the XP client within four months. In 25 years, I’ve never had my system infected with a virus and current AntiVirus suites are still being updated for Windows XP, so the arguments for migration are kind of moot.ĭropbox has been giving me a secure feeling so far, because my daily documents are secured in the cloud automatically. Migrating to Win 10 will be a large undertaking that I’m postponing as long as possible, and security concerns alone can’t really convince me to do it anytime soon. I am pretty mad at Dropbox right now, because I’m using an XP machine for work (which I’ve installed and maintain myself) and I don’t really have time within the next four months to be dealing with software-related issues.
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