Microsoft and the malware market

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It’s neither better nor worse than others, but Microsoft Corp.’s security offerings under its Forefront Security brand is worth taking a good look at, according to one Canadian IT security analyst.



Lemme see if I understand this right.

Virii and malware *ONLY* exsit on windows. They do not exist on Mac's, they do not exist on Linux. Oh , occasionally microsoft hires some dope to write a linux virus so they can say "Look ! Even Linux has virii" but due to Linux's restictions it's a do nothing go no where totally helpless virus that can't survive in the wild and must be carefully nurtured to even exist.


Now they want to sell an anti-virus scanner and an anti-spam scanner , in effect make you PAY for their incompetance, for problems that ONLY exist on their operating system.

Why ? Because the others that were doing that (Norton , Symantec, McAfee , etc) were making too much money off of Microsofts incompetance , and now microsoft wants in on the action. (Of making money off their own incompetance).

If I could cry , I would.

Get off the microsoft wagon.
At the very least stop using the Internet explorer and switch to Firefox.
Better yet, switch to either apples or linux.

The only thing windows has going for it is that it runs the latest games. As far as productivity goes, get an apple. Or Linux. Or heck , even a game box consol of some kind and play games all you like !

Only techies like me who need to be able to say "I built my own computer from scratch" really NEED to deal with this junk. Everyone else is well advised to side step it entirely.