Or perhaps someone with more time to research this can show me where the Flash vulnerabilities don’t apply to Windows 7. I kind of doubt that, though.
apparently it’s going to get to the point where windows 7 users will have to run it in a sandbox if they go online-
I would recommend that folks still using windows 7 to at least run RollBackRX- it’s ‘system restore’ on steroids- You can keep snapshots for years- I suppose one could set it to do a rollback after every day or so online too- rollback to a known good state-
RollBackRX restores everything- so viruses Trojans etc don’t stand a change- but be aware that it affects the boot sector (So that you can restore when booting from the boot rollback menu- there’ a desktop menu too- but if your computer won’t start windows, the boot menu will save your computer)- I ran it for many many years- never had an issue with it- did run into issues twice where somehow it lost the restore points- but that was in older versions of rollbackrx- the new version hasn’t done that yet- It’s an excellent program for worry free online computing- and now that windows 7 is reaching the end of support and updates- it will be a necessity if we wish to keep running windows 7
JUST NOTE though that it can’t be used on dual boot systems unfortunately- which i run now I’ve had to resort to hte straTegy below:
another route is use macrium reflect- purchase it so you can do incremental backups- but you’ll likely need a usb drive to store them on I have several internal hard-drives ready to go if something happens- I cloned a clean system with just a few programs and personal preferences set up, onto new HDD’s so i can just pop one in if something happens to current HDD-
Shame that we have to take such drastic measures just to run an operating system that we like-