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Why is it that guys will upgrade their iPhone to the latest models, costing hundreds of $ and yet never think of doing the same thing to their clapped out aging desktop computer and O/S.
The surge in malicious Emails doing the rounds is astonishing and can come from the many unprotected old O/S computers still active on the internet today.
Now I can hear the naysayers quibble with, it’s my computer so I can do with it what I like because it doesn’t harm any one else, but that’s the point, it most certainly does.
When the hacker gains access to your computer, they can not only FUBAR your system, but they can use your computer to launch even more malicious Emails to many other poor souls.
All of your contacts in your address book are stolen and then used to bombard each and every one of those names on that list for months if not years, because the hackers know that all of these contacts are live good active addresses that can then be sold on to other malware hackers to do the very same.
So come guys if you need an old computer to run your photo editing or printers, then keep it from accessing the internet and this will help enormously to cut down on the junk that’s clogging up the Email system..
The surge in malicious Emails doing the rounds is astonishing and can come from the many unprotected old O/S computers still active on the internet today.
Now I can hear the naysayers quibble with, it’s my computer so I can do with it what I like because it doesn’t harm any one else, but that’s the point, it most certainly does.
When the hacker gains access to your computer, they can not only FUBAR your system, but they can use your computer to launch even more malicious Emails to many other poor souls.
All of your contacts in your address book are stolen and then used to bombard each and every one of those names on that list for months if not years, because the hackers know that all of these contacts are live good active addresses that can then be sold on to other malware hackers to do the very same.
So come guys if you need an old computer to run your photo editing or printers, then keep it from accessing the internet and this will help enormously to cut down on the junk that’s clogging up the Email system..