ALERT: Windows 7 users from April Eset will stop working on outdated systems

[Mr Justice]

I use to be one of those XP users who said I am never going to Vista or 7. Then I upgraded years later and became the one who said he will never upgrade to 8 or 8.1 and eventually 10.

But it's time bois, if you still not on 10 or Linux just quit. LOL

ALERT: Windows 7 users from April Eset will stop working on outdated systems - The Kimberley Prospector

Users of outdated Windows 7 Eset should take note or they will be left without protection from April after the security company sent out an alert to its users. Learn more on how to update your computer to keep Eset running. Eset one of the best Eset Internet Security is one of the best antivirus […]

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[OCP]

So because one AV provider is stopping support for Win7 the whole OS is no longer usable?

Plenty of other AV's out there still supporting Win7....

 

[Mr Justice]

So because one AV provider is stopping support for Win7 the whole OS is no longer usable?

Plenty of other AV's out there still supporting Win7....

When the best AV in the security business drops it. Yes.

 

[Johnatan56]

So because one AV provider is stopping support for Win7 the whole OS is no longer usable?

Plenty of other AV's out there still supporting Win7....

When the core OS has security holes in it, an AV will not help you.

Disconnect the machine from the internet if you need W7 for some old apps, else move to Linux or W10. You'll probably like Linux Mint.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Whodafuq is still on Windows 7? The same ****ers that don't pay their tv licences?
Come on guys, please upgrade. And pay your licence, it's the right thing to do. Thank You

 

[Mr Justice]

I challenge anyone to name any AV which is better than Eset. Please go ahead and make my day.

 

[Mr Justice]

When the core OS has security holes in it, an AV will not help you.

Disconnect the machine from the internet if you need W7 for some old apps, else move to Linux or W10. You'll probably like Linux Mint.

Yes the only secure machine is a disconnected machine.

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

I challenge anyone to name any AV which is better than Eset. Please go ahead and make my day.

I was an ESET user for years, but with Win10 it kept fncking up the windows network shares, no matter how many times you tell it IP so and so are good ... if you look again, cant access XYZ ... uninstalled and problem is solved

Have since used Avast and now Bitdefender, both without issues.
Not a big fan of Bitdefender, so might go back to Avast, otherwise something new.

 

[Crumbl0x]

I challenge anyone to name any AV which is better than Eset. Please go ahead and make my day.

Common Sense

 

[Mr Justice]

I was an ESET user for years, but with Win10 it kept fncking up the windows network shares, no matter how many times you tell it IP so and so are good ... if you look again, cant access XYZ ... uninstalled and problem is solved

Have since used Avast and now Bitdefender, both without issues.
Not a big fan of Bitdefender, so might go back to Avast, otherwise something new.

Not sure which version you used but exceptions are easily configured in the firewall's zone editor.

If its blocking something it's doing its job and thay means with current AV those backdoors are open or unsupervised.

 

[Mr Justice]

Common Sense

Lol that's cheating if only common sense was installable.

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

im done with ESET and you're not going to change my mind, sorry

 

[|tera|]

For the Win7 users.
Kaspersky Cloud free works fine.
Installed it about 2 weeks ago on an old laptop. Kaspersky anti ransomware free can be installed alongside it.

I'm an Eset user myself. Unlike Dimpie I'm not using network shares, so there's no issues on my end with it.

 

[Mr Justice]

For the Win7 users.
Kaspersky Cloud free works fine.
Installed it about 2 weeks ago on an old laptop. Kaspersky anti ransomware free can be installed alongside it.

I'm an Eset user myself. Unlike Dimpie I'm not using network shares, so there's no issues on my end with it.

Karspersky is russian all your base are belong to us

 

[|tera|]

Karspersky is russian all your base are belong to us

It is yes. That hasn't worried me in the past though. I've administered and deployed large networks with Eset, Kaspersky, Norton and Bitdefender.
Eset and Kaskpersky always came out tops. Deploying roughly 350 endpoints in 2 to 3 hours. Really can't complain about that.