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Title: How Secure is Wattos after end of life
Post by: herndon.jeffreys on March 29, 2019, 12:10:44 PM

I have a quick question.  I have Wattos R9 installed on a laptop.  Its End of Life is this year (April).  I really don't want to install r10 on it, given its End of Life is just two years away....  I'd rather wait for the new version of Wattos.  How safe is it to just leave r9 on the laptop until the new version comes out?

Title: Re: How Secure is Wattos after end of life
Post by: leenie on March 29, 2019, 05:13:07 PM

If you want to keep using wattOS R9, I suggest you DO NOT MAKE ANY ONLINE PURCHASES, NO ONLINE BANKING and set your browser to "Keep local data only until you quit your browser." Please make sure your firewall is on!

It doesn't take long to install wattOS R10... You have to do clean install, you cannot upgrade to wattOS R10.

Good luck!

Title: Re: How Secure is Wattos after end of life
Post by: herndon.jeffreys on March 30, 2019, 03:10:48 AM

Thanks, so much!  It is a laptop that I use for limited purposes...  sending e-mails and doing legal research.  I don't shop or do banking on it, so it sounds like I'm good for a while!