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To: zeugma

“I’m just hoping that they manage to make windows less virus-friendly with Win10”

they won’t. the only way to do that is to make all but one login account a “limited” account by default and disallow execution of programs from anywhere but the “program files” and “windows” directories for limited accounts.

It’s pretty easy to do that, so I think the vulnerabilities are deliberate, so that after 3 years or so, it’s cheaper to buy a new PC than repair an OS that’s had 3 years worth of virus accumulation, meaning both Microsoft and the PC vendor’s get to sell new stuff.


99 posted on 01/07/2015 9:00:39 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman
The other thing they really need to do, that they can't do is get rid of the concept of having files be executable based on their freaking filename. This is the single most dangerous "feature" of the MS-Windows platform IMO.
108 posted on 01/07/2015 10:51:14 AM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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