[Knitebane]

I understand your dislike of MS but suggest you have a friend show you Windows 7.

I've had a chance to install Windows 7.

Same crap in a new wrapper. It's one claim to fame: it's not as bad as Vista. And some people even dispute that.

Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses.

Windows 7 more vulnerable to malware than Vista, says researcher

Get back to me when Microsoft builds an OS that isn't a host for botnets.

Or when Microsoft builds an OS that can't be taken down by a faulty user-land program.

[tgusa]

Just sayin’ that my experience with Windows 7 has been a good one - haven’t been hit with a virus or any malware. It has yet to crash. I’m happy with it thus far.

[TChris]

Yawn.

Same Windows-bashing, different day.

1. Install anti-virus. There are good free ones available.

2. Windows comes with Defender, a decent anti-spyware app.

3. Use the hardware firewall in your WAP or router.

4. Windows firewall is already activated on install.

What Windows is vulnerable to in a magazine's lab is utterly irrelevant. Windows 7 is a very good O/S, and a HUGE improvement to Vista.

Here are the infection rates per 1000 executions of the MSRT for the most recent versions of Windows, prior to 7. There is NO question that MS has made huge improvements on this front.