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Why Windows will never be secure

And why, if you're smart, you don't let Windows machines connect to the internet.

http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/

"Security consultant A.J. Reznor points out that every major worm other than the original Morris Worm from 1988 has leveraged a hole in Microsoft products. Reznor refuses to work with Microsoft products but still actively loathes the company because his network becomes "saturated with crap flying out of [Windows] machines." Spammers route their junk through MS machines infected with a trojan?a harmful computer program disguised as an innocuous one?that turns these machines into "zombies." "Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them," he says. "Kind of like secondhand smoke."

That pretty much sums it up. Windows is not safe, it will never be safe. Vista won't be any better. I remember XP being the safest operating system MSFT has ever fielded, according to them anyway.

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