I don't think you are... maybe I've not been clear. I'm very big on privacy and security, for this reason I don't use cloud systems for storage or phone apps for banking etc... hence my recommendations thus far. It is more than possible to prevent any version of Windows "calling home" and the data that is shared... this is very different from not applying MS security patches to an OS (which can be done manually).
Sigh ... I see this has gotten so far off the rails it's entirely irredeemable.
I did not say I was not applying security patches ... you guys made that up all by yourselves.
What I said was that I wasn't applying patches where I don't know what they're doing.
Then the indoctrinated cries of "sitting duck" and "stupid" started as MS lovers jumped all over me spouting MS dogma about deteriorating security without updates... even while admitting that Win7 is not self-modifying code.
What none of you seem to realize or care about is that I took a carefully considered choice to do things as I am, and I did it for good reasons... Y'all are just pissed because I'm not sucked into the "you need 12 kinds of anti-virus and weekly automatic updates" when in fact I need none of those things.
My systems run error free, they do not lose speed over time, they are faster than most and they use less ram to run. They've been rock stable for 10 years ... and y'all are begging me to update to software that copies data off-site, has update recalls and is known to put stuff into their systems without permission ...
and not one of you seems able to understand why I just won't go there.
Seriously ... y'all need to give this a lot more thought.
I'm out ... all done with this ridiculous conversation.