I had a Vista SP2 computer and remember how Microsoft effectively abandoned support for this OS more than a year before it reached end of support on 1 because they refused to update an out-of-date Windows Update Agent for Vista (wuaueng.dll v.256, released June 2012) or clean up supersedence chains in the update catalog (wsusscn2.cab) that crippled Windows Update - see m#l's June 2016 Updates not working, it has been searching for updates for hours in the MS Answers Vista board (now 68 pages long) for just one thread on this topic. I'm not advocating that people use unsupported operating systems and web browsers, and I'm a actually a bit gob-smacked at the number of people still using MBAM v2.2.1 when most Win XP and Vista users could have upgraded to Malwarebytes v3.5.1 years ago, but not everyone has the financial resources or desire to constantly upgrade their hardware and software.Ĭompanies like Microsoft also have to take some responsibility for people using outdated software when they do things like announce end of support for Win 10 (2) and start rolling out a bloated Win 11 OS that requires TPM 2.0 / Secure Boot and won't even run on many computers currently in use. To be fair, not every person or non-profit group can afford to purchase "the latest and greatest" hardware required to run newer software, some simply object to disposing/recycling a working computer that still meets their needs, and others are simply uncomfortable trying to keep up with constant changes in technology or are just fed up dealing with yet another buggy update that screws up their computer. Everyone suffers from that very, very small minority of users using outdated operating systems. For the life of me, I cannot wrap my head around why everyday users, still insist on making outdated/EOS/EOL OS's front facing the internet still a thing. 2) to add SHA-2 code signing support see AdvancedSetup's 0 instructions in murph's thread Now MBAM Wants a Microsoft Security Update.ĭell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v21H2 build 19044.1706 * Firefox v100.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v.5-0.5 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.5.9.198. If you have a Win 7 SP1 OS and have most of the Windows security updates released prior to end of support on 1 but still need to install KB4474419 (rel.
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