> My, how mature you are. How erudite. Am I wasting my time on a 13 year old? Must be.
Nah, he signed up for FR on 2001-10-19. Assuming he was at least 13 -then-, he'd be about 21 now.
But probably still living in his mom's basement. ;-) I wouldn't waste any more time on him.
Back to the topic of the thread, the situation with Win7 may not be as dire as the article claims. There are some scare-tactics going on too. I suspect anything that the anti-virus vendors publish to be self-serving at best and fraudulent at worst.
Shoot, I've seen ads for anti-malware software packages for Unix, Linux, OS-X and others, all of which, if you read the fine-print, are to "protect your Windows clients that connect to your *ix or OS-X server" or "stop the spread of viruses on your network" meaning transmission by email and/or samba shares.
And to be honest, I've thought about it from time to time... I've got both real Windows (2K3) and Unix/Samba shares on my work internal net, along with the Unix/Linux NFS and others, and our software engineers post and distribute Windows .EXE files (utilities and self-installers) on the secure external websites for download by our customers and clients.
But with good anti-virus on every user Window workstation, and a nice tight Cisco firewall at the main gate, most of the job is done at the doorway.
So I guess all the virus-writers are sticking with Windows because it's an easier and more lucrative target (not because it's the biggest one out there, but because it's the weakest one out there).
I do think it's a shame there aren't more motivated virus writers poking at OS-X and BSD Unix. I feel like the Maytag repairman... All the attacks I've seen on my out-facing systems have been user/pass attempts (which drop on the floor since I use only NetBSD and require public-key auth). Boring... ;-)
It does, doesn't. I saw this article and also decided it was basically FUD against Windows7 and decided not to be the poster. Once it was posted, I felt duty bound to ping to it, though. Actually, when you think about it, Microsoft should be proud to be the target of FUD from the anti-malware publishers. I think it probably indicates they are doing something right for a change...