Can I say this is vary familiar? Or would that be too crass in a Windows thread? ROTFLMAO! Probably be better to not say it. Mums the word.
Familiar? Crass? Hell, after all these years, -I- could have written a blurb about only allowing authorized processes to run, in my sleep. LOL
But let's cross our fingers and hope it's more effective than past attempts, recognizing that it's an endless cat-and-mouse game, because the malware writers stay one step ahead; the best you can do with anti-malware is play defense.
That's why I liked tacticalogic's comment #22 about the cruise missile that does traceroute.
Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
Yes.
The next version is always going to be immune to viruses.
I won't take anything Microsoft says about securing their operating system seriously until they get rid of the concept of things being executable based on their name.