My Windows 7 box this morning gave me a windows malicious software removal tool and another update. Its been years since I've seen anything other than anti virus/malware updates on this machine. What is going on? Brian
They might have fixed the fallina vulnerability for Win 7 as well as 8, 10 and 11?
I like your confidence.
Windows is what is going on.
I prefer to rely on 3rd party "clean-up" tools rather than anything Microsoft might want to force upon me. Sophos "malicious software tool" is my weapon of choice.
Free download all be-it fishing for contact details to send marketing bumpf to but you can always just use a google e-mail address to take any junk.
Then download the app. and let it do its thing.
I've just scanned all our PC's folllowing one of our business contacts "sending out" e-mails claiming to be a link to a .pdf with the fake assurance it's safe and from a trusted source.
Seen it before from another contact, very destructive just from the fact it would easily catch out the less wary then rip through all their contacts.
I've temporarily uploaded the Sophos tool downloaded this morning to my ProtonDrive account which was easier to distribute to off-site computers. Not that anyone "should" trust me and should only download directly from the Sophos site but if anyone wants todays version without jumping through marketing hoops of Sophos it's on the following link:
Cheers - Pete
Yeah, I know all about it, like Whack-a-Mole....alternative vulnerabilities are built into the updates.
I've been getting Windows Malicious Software updates most months even after MS supposedly withdrew ongoing support for Win 7. That's for the Home Premium version. So it looks as if those updates are a special case and continue to be supported. The mystery is why your PC hasn't been giving you them until now.
Even when it was in support, they very seldom were specific what their updates actually were for, so why change now?
I guess since a lot of the code is shared between 7 and 10, its probably not a lot of work. The update channel is still working unlike the windows xp onewhich will wait for ever if you enable it. Brian
Interesting. One has to assume that something urgent came up then. This machine took a long while to install it, and seemed not to find anything, but I rebooted in any case. We have a machine remote to this but its running home edition and probablyhas only manual updates on since its on an internet dongle through the mobile network which means updates can eat your monthly data.I will need to go and look at it. Brian Brian
Unless its improved, it used to be totally inaccessible for a blind user. I have superantispywarre, which is semi accessible in its free form, Malware bytesed to be but like avg and others have decided to make it snazzy at the expense of standard APIs that screenreaders can interact with. Brian
The link opened the page but when I clicked on download it said failed to download. Brian
No idea, maybe it has, but not been vocal about it before. Brian
Follina is pretty important, it allows a word document to basically do anything it wants on your machine, even from a file preview without manually opening it, until the hotfix microsoft were relying on antivirus (e.g defender) to spot the malicious attachments ...
I've got a machine with vanilla Win7 as the HD failed, so I reinstalled from DVD. How do I get it to upgrade anything? Even Firefox wants SP1.
use Windows Update in Win 7.....
Also for those utilities you need, take a look at
Theoretically you need to pay for annual extended support licences; you need to buy the 2020 licence at $50, plus the 2021 licence at $100, plus the 2022 licence at $200, guess how much the 2023 licence will be? Then there won't be any more after that.
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