We haven't used any anti-virus in years and years, anyway. A couple of gaffes from my bride's computer were easily overcome by her tech support -- me.
Don't do stupid things online, be skeptical and remember, all scams come from WORDS. The first Windows 95 virus was nothing more than an email warning to delete a necessary "dll" and people dutifully believed "advice."
My reason for avoiding any more updates are two fold. 1) Windows upgrades have done more damage than some scammer. 2) I like the legacy software I sue, and will not buy new to please "new." Nor would we buy a $30/year service from Microsoft at this juncture. The most damage we have experienced came "courtesy" of Microsoft.
“The most damage we have experienced came “courtesy” of Microsoft.”
ABSOLUTELY. I discovered that back in the very beginning. I caught on to MS greed back when CPUs and bus speed started to get faster. As soon as MS realized hardware was getting faster they purposely stole all that extra speed for themselves with unneeded bloat. Almost as if it was on purpose. Still windows loads almost as slow as it did back when we were using 386 processors. And they have been doing it all along.
Nope, not doing it for any reason or need. I can live without a computer before I ever do that again.