Microsoft reveals how much Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will cost
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I sure would like to see a graph displaying the frequency of new vulnerabilities over their lifetime for all Windows versions (with timeline marks for end of support and end of extended support). It must be thirty years since I last heard of a new boot sector virus. 20 years since the last Win98 virus. 10 years since the last XP virus. How many new Win7 viruses were detected five years ago? How may new Win10 viruses are detected per week, or month, today? What can we expect a year and a half from now? What can we expect at the end of the three year long Extended Security Updates, four and and half years from now? That graph should display, for all Windows versions, not only frequency of new viruses, but also the frequency of observations of those viruses in the wild. (For unknown reasons, boot sector viruses are never observed today :-)). Also, the graph should show the number of known but not (yet) fixed vulnerabilities over time. How many fixes were made during the Extended Security Updates period, for each Windows version? How many known vulnerabilities were never fixed? Is paying the annual fee for new virus signature files for my old XP machine worth the money? Do I use that XP machine for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections? No, and no. How about my Win 10 machine after 2025-10-14 - worth the money?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I sure would like to see a graph displaying the frequency of new vulnerabilities over their lifetime for all Windows versions (with timeline marks for end of support and end of extended support). It must be thirty years since I last heard of a new boot sector virus. 20 years since the last Win98 virus. 10 years since the last XP virus. How many new Win7 viruses were detected five years ago? How may new Win10 viruses are detected per week, or month, today? What can we expect a year and a half from now? What can we expect at the end of the three year long Extended Security Updates, four and and half years from now? That graph should display, for all Windows versions, not only frequency of new viruses, but also the frequency of observations of those viruses in the wild. (For unknown reasons, boot sector viruses are never observed today :-)). Also, the graph should show the number of known but not (yet) fixed vulnerabilities over time. How many fixes were made during the Extended Security Updates period, for each Windows version? How many known vulnerabilities were never fixed? Is paying the annual fee for new virus signature files for my old XP machine worth the money? Do I use that XP machine for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections? No, and no. How about my Win 10 machine after 2025-10-14 - worth the money?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
That would be an interesting graph! I would think that the two times a Windows version would be most vulnerable are when it’s active, and immediately after it goes off support. That’s when people would dig out the vulnerabilities they were saving for a while. Probably a year after support ends, the attacks drop off sharply.
TTFN - Kent
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I sure would like to see a graph displaying the frequency of new vulnerabilities over their lifetime for all Windows versions (with timeline marks for end of support and end of extended support). It must be thirty years since I last heard of a new boot sector virus. 20 years since the last Win98 virus. 10 years since the last XP virus. How many new Win7 viruses were detected five years ago? How may new Win10 viruses are detected per week, or month, today? What can we expect a year and a half from now? What can we expect at the end of the three year long Extended Security Updates, four and and half years from now? That graph should display, for all Windows versions, not only frequency of new viruses, but also the frequency of observations of those viruses in the wild. (For unknown reasons, boot sector viruses are never observed today :-)). Also, the graph should show the number of known but not (yet) fixed vulnerabilities over time. How many fixes were made during the Extended Security Updates period, for each Windows version? How many known vulnerabilities were never fixed? Is paying the annual fee for new virus signature files for my old XP machine worth the money? Do I use that XP machine for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections? No, and no. How about my Win 10 machine after 2025-10-14 - worth the money?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
trønderen wrote:
for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections?
I would say, that's what VMs are for.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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trønderen wrote:
for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections?
I would say, that's what VMs are for.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
trønderen wrote:
for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections? I would say, that's what VMs are for.
Or the extended version:
trønderen wrote:
for surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections? No, and no. I would say, that's what VMs are for.
So VMs are for not surfing dubious web sites where it could pick up new infections :-)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.