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Brien, there's a whole side to this story you're missing. You concluded with a presumption about the nature of malware attacks.

First, "The ONLY products effected are anti-virus packages, which you WILL NOT NEED with Vista....
Honestly, who cares about these anti-virus software companies?"- Any digital product on a Windows system is open to being adversely affected by Microsoft's continued failure to produce quality software without considerable defects. Instead of making quality software, they sell you ****, and charge you for any fixes you'd have to make to protect whatever digital products you have residing on their crap system. This means that you, the end consumer, are the one being screwed, not just the antivirus companies.

Second, "If MS opens the system to ANY other software, someone will hack it. That's how a virus works."- The kernel has already been opened. Microsoft software is not secure to script kiddies, who are the ones producing the security threats in the form of worms, viruses, and phishing sites. There are intelligent little hackers all over the world that never fail to outbrain Microsoft. Conventional security is largely insecure. Modern security is largely insecure. The problem isn't trust concerns, specifically. The problem is the severe damages consumers suffer by using this crap software. The reason it's making the headlines so big-time now is because multibillion "Fix-Microsoft's-Crap" antivirus companies are going to hurt because Microsoft is now using its illegal trust stranglehold to hurt them as well, and they want to expose this to the public to gain leverage, so as to make Microsoft answer to just some of its wrongdoing.

You're right to be angry, but try being angry at the real enemy. Microsoft is one of the biggest corporate enemies in our dying country.

-Brian Croner

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