Macos Mojave use after EOL?

[lemonad]

Hi!
I have a macbook air 2015 with 4GB ram and i have ran monterey and big sur on the machine but they feels slow on this machine, it takes forever to boot and open programs. So i decided to reinstall mojave and now the machine flies in speed.

But how unsecure is Mojave at this moment? when no updates at all is coming anymore. i have installed silentknight and i get some security fixes from there and firewall is on. Or should i use Monterey? my machine does not go further then monterey that is the last supported version i ever will get.

 

[Gregg2]

Not sure how to answer "how secure?" question. What do you want, statistics? I don't have that.

I used Snow Leopard for quite awhile after the last security update was released, and never had a breach of security. I expect it will be the same for Mojave. You might have some websites that won't work with Safari. That got to be too much for me, so I upgraded to El Capitan. I just upgraded to Monterey from Mojave because I wanted to upgrade another app that was 64-bit. Otherwise, I'd still be happily using Mojave.

 

[padams35]

Mojave is still very secure.

I don't think there has been a single internet virus or worm on OSX/MacOS since Gatekeeper was introduced back in Mountain Lion. These days the threats are internet browsing confidentiality and trojans, so just make sure you are using a web browser that is receiving active updates (ie: not Safari) and only download software directly from trusted developers and extremely reputable redistributers.

To be fair, that last part also applies to people running Monterey.

 

[Fishrrman]

Still using Mojave on my 2018 Mini.
Couldn't care one whit about "security".
Never had a problem with any of my Macs, regardless of how old the OS running happened to be.