Posted on 05/09/2005 7:00:15 AM PDT by holymoly
I will grant you that, regardless of what MS is currently doing, the existence and utilization of virus and spyware scanners is an unnecessary and counterproductive thing. I'll make the prediction right now: Combined with restricted user accounts and other sorts of security policy limitations that will be introduced over the next few years, we will see a much safer Windows. Now, of course, that won't help people that are currently using Win9x or WinXP. But vastly better security is a compelling reason to upgrade -- and MS apparently realizes this.
Please cite specifics to support your argument.
Not to be too picky, but.. You're still vulnerable to exploits which spread rapidly - before your nightly update - and to exploits, worms and such, not protected by anti-virus/spyware.
From what the press reports say, MS will make IE run with reduced privileges
That's good news, and if it is integrated with restricted accounts, hopefully it will make exploits using Active-X and VBS less of a possibility.
vastly better security is a compelling reason to upgrade -- and MS apparently realizes this.
Do you have any thoughts or information on backward compatibility of apps with Longhorn?
Appreciate your replies and discussion...
hmm how about this " The ONLY reason Firefox and the Mac browsers are "safer" is simply because they are not used extensively enough for hackers to bother with them!..
Bold and Uppercase...
Does this "patch" require a full new install of the entire product like the previous "upgrades" did?
No.
post alpha 0.9 I have never had to reinstall firefox, it is always an online patch that only requires a browser restart..
According to this article you have. And I'll trust eWeek every time.
I can't see how may megs this latest patch is either, since their servers are currently overloaded again.
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