[QUOTE 3803265, member: 9609"]I think you missed my point, any new virus / malware development is unlikely to be aimed at the older systems, the hackers will be concentrating on the latest OS as this is where the insecurities are likely to be, windows 10 will be full of opportunities for the clever hacker. If you have kept your win 98 / vista / win 7 up to date with patches and your virus definitions up to date then you are far less likely to be infected as those systems have already had every door and window double checked. When win 10 has been out for a year or two 99.998 of the glitches and insecurities will have been ironed out.[/QUOTE]
Oh, yes I see what you mean. Yes, if you keep your win 7/8 up to date it'll probably have fewer vulns than the new shiny, at least until it gets end-of-lifed and they stop making patches. As soon as there are holes that you haven't patched then running an old version probably won't save you, I would not be surprised if there were automated attackers out there testing for holes last seen in windows 95
I run hipster Linux anyway