Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On Thu, 7/3/2025 2:48 AM, T wrote:

On 7/1/25 6:19 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

On 29/06/2025 6:10 am, T wrote:
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And do not, do not, do not do ANY on line banking with Windows.

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Why do you make this recommendation, T??

 
The things I see in happening to my customers.
 
The last customer I helped clean up after
a banking computerize got embezzlement
for over 40,000.00 U$D.  She was using
Windows 10.  And she was not the only
person I had to clean up after.
 
Keep in mind that it is up to the banks
discretion whether or not to make you
whole after you get embezzled.  "But the
eMail seemed so real!"
 
Windows is too easy to compromise.  It is
security Swiss cheese.
 
If you are going to do on-line banking
I recommend you use Fedora with SELinux
enabled.
 
Or in my case -- I've seen too much -- I do
all my banking at the bank.
 

When you ran the attachment on Virustotal, what
sort of detection did it yield ?

I only want this info as a source of an example
for the next time.

The detection won't tell you anything particularly,
except as a starting point for classification.

1) Was it patch-able (if patched in time) ?
2) Was it heuristically detectable (with sufficiently
   good third-party AV) ?

Was it going to be as much of an issue for an unsupported
OS after October 2025, as for a supported OS after Oct 2025 ?

*******

I don't recommend you do online banking. Period.

The defenders are losing this battle. There are no winners.

   Paul