To me, hearing a Windows user having virus troubles is like listening to homosexuals complain about AIDS. If you didn't engage in a certain pattern of behavior, you wouldn't have the problem. Same thing goes with computers. If you start to realize that the Operating System you are using is causing all kinds of problems in your life, you ought to stop using it. To hear people complain about the same problem over and over and over without resolution is frustrating. Just like homosexuals, when you give the simple solution to problem you get the same reaction, "How dare you question my choices" and personal attacks.
The solution to your problem is available and can be obtainly freely!
It's awfully easy to blame a big business when one of their products doesn't work out the way they like but in this case they're not entirely at fault. Some deranged mind or minds as the case may be created hose viruses and these people need to be brought to answer for what they've done. That's what this thread was all about to let them know that they will one day be held to answer.
Simply going after Microsoft without addressing what other things might be involved when we know it's not totally their fault is not going to help matters. These people did wrong, they know it and they need to answer for it.
And I think we as computer users need to calll for these hackers to be brought to justcie and made an example of so that things like this will never happen again.
Regards.
OUCH!
I can't argue with you, though...
It is possible to use Windows exclusively and not be bothered by viruses. I have used many Windows versions in my home and at work for over 10 years and have never been infected. And I use the internet and email a lot. If you take proper care of your machine and seal your ports and keep up on the patches, you can be free of the little critters. You also have to watch where you get your software from.
I guess what I'm saying (though not condoning it) is that it is possible to be a practicing homosexual and not have AIDS.