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To: catnipman
I notice you were careful to omit the first paragraph:

"Windows is a big target because it powers the vast majority of the world’s desktop computers and laptops. If you’re writing malware and you want to infect average computers users – perhaps you want to install a key logger on their systems and steal their credit card numbers and other financial data – you would target Windows because that’s where the most users are.

This is the most common argument for Windows having such a history of malware, and it’s true"

Maybe both you and your customers might be better off if you just didn't work on Windows systems any more.

34 posted on 05/08/2015 2:28:16 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

But if Windows were ACTUALLY secure, it wouldn’t matter HOW big it was. But it’s not, which is why the various NT Windows-based OSes have had to have hundreds of security patches over the decades.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/173674/adding_up_six_years_of_microsoft_patch_tuesdays.html


35 posted on 05/08/2015 2:47:04 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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