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Oh, and my machines are not owned, never have been and never will be - you know why? Educated user with an ounce of clue.

Or a big ego coupled with a false sense of security. If it isn't detected by your anti-virus or spyware subscription how do you know you don't have any nasties? You watching everything in and our of your network? Whitelisting your firewall? Do you remote in to every single machine to do spyware removals? Because a lot of them, that's what it takes.

I work on some customer sites with the highest level Death Star security you can run on Windows network that is at all functional. Users have zero permissions to install anything, whitelisted firewall, if you even plug the wrong kind of machine into a wall jack that jack is cut off from the network.

After all that they STILL have problems. Not to mention how much time their users spend on password resets, waiting for an admin to come by and install software for them and just generally trying to get their work done.

So when you tell me you run a secure Windows network, it's a joke. Your users bring CD's to work? Uh-oh, Sony rootkit. Anyone running WeatherBug? You have spyware! ActiveX enabled? Software downloads? There are so many holes in Windows it's an endless game of whack-a-mole.

Educated user. ROFL! Educated MSFT shill, maybe. The only safe copy of Windows is unplugged.
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