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Topic subjectRE: Rootkit Removal
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565096, RE: Rootkit Removal
Posted by therube, Mon Mar-19-18 03:50 PM
(IMO)

Assuming you feel sufficiently protected, that you haven't had anything "odd" occur - & even though you hadn't been getting updates, I wouldn't be particularly concerned.

I went a long time, in Win7, without updates (due to MS's purposeful stifling of Win7 updates, IOW taking AGES to update, seemly as a means to "promote" Win10), that I simply disabled updates altogether.

Likewise, I continue to use an XP system (gasp) that what, could it be 2 years now since MS last put out an update (that is without a hack, & with 1 exception).