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Old 09-21-17, 05:46 AM   #44
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such as money with paypal, credit card, bank, stock account.
Red Alert... Red Alert...

I hope you now what you are doing. I did and do such things only from an ultra-tighted machine, especially stock account management and banking. Windows 7 is NOT SAFE anymore. Microsoft has reverse-installed plenty of telemetry and spyware from W10 into W7, and hid that behind misleading patch descriptions or rightout lies, and I assume you did your updates for W7 frequently? If not, your machine by now is a malware paradise. Also for bugs that ordinary scanners would not get triggered by.

In W10, every keytroke gets overwatched and phoned home to Mother. If this ind of telemetry also was put into W7, then every time you log into your accounts for banking and sticks, Micosoft reads your account names and passwords.

Do. Never. Use. Windows/Apple/Google. For. Money. Stuff.

If I ever go back to stocks buying, I would do it via a separated device and virtual network, TOR or something.
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