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Originally Posted by Sir Loyne
I don't need to update Calibre as it already does everything I want it to do.
Anecdotal Fallacy |
Okay, you don't want anecdotes. How about this?
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While fewer malware files were seen in 2017 than in 2016,
the numbers are more striking when viewed by operating
system. Only 15% of the total files determined to be malware
in 2017 were seen on Windows 10 systems, while a full 63%
were found on Windows 7, the next-most-common OS for
businesses. On Windows 10 systems, we saw an average of
.04 malware files per device, a strong contrast with .08 on
Windows 7.
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The occurrence of malware per non-business device at the
end of 2017 was .07 for Windows 10, versus .16 for Windows
7 and .17 on Windows XP. As with business devices, Windows
10 is more than twice as safe as Windows 7 for home user
devices. The volume of malware per device remained constant
throughout 2017, at an average of .55 files per device.
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2018 report from Webroot. Vulnerabilities are everywhere, browsing a website (and not just shady porn sites-- Forbes once infected users because of their ad provider).
The gap will only increase as time goes on Browsers are dropping support (Chrome's already done so, Firefox in a few months), which drastically increases your risk of hitting ransomware or password-stealers or some other nasty.