Someone is trying to log in to my account from WINDOWS 7!!!

If only you knew how many critical systems are running old versions of Windows... It's mind boggling

OP complaining about win 7 while I am unironically using Win XP because nostalgia.

You laugh but the fact that you got a login confirmation notification means he got your password now. He'll just need to guess your email password next and you'll be truly owned. Set up 2fa on your email account if you haven't set it up already.

Jokes on him. I don't even know the password to either account
- me emailing the hacker asking for my password

How can you use such an operating system now

To be honest, it still works better than Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Problem is it's 3 years past EOL and hasn't received any security updates in that time.

It's functional, just not secure.
- There actually are updates to it as for the last three years Microsoft has continued to patch it under the commercial "Extended Security Update" program - that only ended in January 2023.
  You just couldn't get them as a home user without doing a lot of tweaking on your own.
- Wouldn't be surprised if it's some compromised machine that someone else is controlling for illegal activities.
- Nothing is, just accept this and plan with it in mind.
10 is fine
Do you use it?
- I dualboot Manjaro with Linux Mint.
  But on school computers we even have Windows XP. Not much you can do with 256MiB of RAM.
- I still did until last year. It's probably still the best operating system ever made.

In the UK, a lot of our government still uses XP and a lot of our public embedded devices (e.g. the tills in the Co-Op) run on Internet Explorer.

Some random Thai hacker using 7 isn't that much of a stretch.

What are Co-Ops?
- It's a kind of shop. They do other things as well, but the shop is the most memorable. Co-Op is short for "Co-Operative".
  
  They're related to the Co-Op Party, which is part of the Labour party (a popular left-wing political party).
- You know, like don’t starve together, portal 2, deep strokes VR 3D p2p edition.

Clearly they should be using Windows XP instead.

Vista*
- *ME

He's probably using a VM and/or faking his fingerprint.

7!!! is a really high number, I doubt there will ever be that many versions of Windows

someone make a c/unexpectedfactoral
- Oh that would be exactly the the kind of community I should make.
  
  You’re welcome. !unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz
  
  https://sopuli.xyz/c/unexpectedfactorial
Is there a higher number than 7? Maybe 4 sometimes?
laughing from the futur while using windows 95!
28 isn't that high of a number...

Whatever, windows 7 was sick

At that point you could probably have a middle school just hack them back.

could just be the custom user-agent string configured in whatever browser or script they're running.

I'm using a Win7 machine at work, because I have to support a system that saw it's last update in 2014. There is actually a Win10 compatible version of this software, but it only supports maybe a third of the chips of the original software, and sadly the ones we use are not among those.

And it can get worse. I've got an oscilloscope that "runs" under a heavily modified version of Win98...

Why you shouldn't develop production grade software for Windows part 25.
- Just to be the devil's advocate here, you can make the same mistake with embedded Linux.
  
  Any old software should not be in the network.
Assuming it is not on the network, I don't care what OS it runs. I'd like to see if I could run your OS on a virtual machine and give access to the hardware.

Does your scope give good resolution? How does it compare?
- The scope is an old 4-Channel digital scope from HP (now Agilent). It cost about a fortune when it was bought, and now I got my hands on it for a (small) donation in the barbeque fund. It needs some work (some dials' contacts need rework, and it definitly needs a new fan that does not sound like a starting plane. But otherwise, it is still good.
  
  It only was retired because for our next project, 2GS won't cut it. And the amount of samples it could store was not much (for our needs), too. Still overkill for my private projects, with the bonus that I don't need to dig through manuals, as I know this thing inside out.
Reminds me of a recording studio I used to work at which had an MS-DOS machine long after Windows XP came out because it was what we printed cassette labels on. With a dot matrix printer.

A lot of legacy equipment still uses 98/XP machines because it literally just needs to work.

because it looks so good

My nuke silo runs temple os.

To hacking bro

That's obviously Albanian Hacker, creator of Albanian Virus

It's not that hard. In fact I set up a windows vista computer for a child to use not that long ago.

Why
- Because he hates his child and wants her/him to suffer, so he forces him to use windows vista. That's an obvious answer
- It's a way of limiting screen time
- Punishment
- It uses the lotion or else it gets the hose again.
- Because she is 9 and doesn't know how to do much of anything with a computer. So to ensure she doesn't break anything or end up where she shouldn't.... Windows vista
- Character building exercise and/or tragic backstory

I still have one laptop running Windows 7 because it has some software I like to use that can't be installed on later versions.