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Even Windows users don't need to live in fear...
Not even Windows users need to live in fear. If you practice good software hygiene Windows is not horribly dangerous. What makes it a problem is one specific group of applications shipped with Windows and built into the API... those that use the Microsoft HTML control.

Because the HTML control's flaws are built into the design: they're not just bugs that can be fixed. It's like a pane of bulletproof glass with 1,000 holes in it, and Microsoft running around one by one epoxying over each hole after enough bullets have gone through it that they notice it's there... and other developers at Microsoft and elsewhere drilling new holes in it all the time... because they can't close all the holes without breaking Windows Explorer, Control Panel, Windows Update, and everything else that depends on automatically loading ActiveX applets.

Luckily, you don't have to stand in front of that window.
Posted by: Resuna   Posted on: 11/12/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Wow, there are now 32 pieces of malware targeting OS X!!  NonZealot | 11/08/07
Ah well...  ego.sum.stig@... | 11/08/07
With you, that would be 33...  BitTwiddler | 11/08/07
One actually  voska | 11/08/07
I agree, was using Mac zealot logic  NonZealot | 11/08/07
Seeing you rant...  crampy20 | 11/08/07
actually...  doh123 | 11/10/07
You really need to research, NZ...  vulpine@... | 11/12/07
re:Multiplying Mac Trojan not epidemic yet  Intellihence | 11/12/07
Even Windows users don't need to live in fear...  Resuna | 11/12/07
macs are not "vulnerable" to this software at all, no exploit  jjarman | 11/12/07
this is why it is not an epidemic yet  jjarman | 11/12/07
They could always use  tracy anne | 11/13/07
Installing unknown software is risky, no matter the OS  Heatlesssun1 | 11/08/07
Linux has the advantage only because it is so insignificant (nt)  crampy20 | 11/08/07
That may be true  ROTORY | 11/12/07
Who "hates to admit" this?  Resuna | 11/12/07
Agreed in principle  thx-1138_@... | 11/12/07
wait a sec, 20 years?  JamesDoyle | 11/13/07
Now in Linux's favor  tracy anne | 11/13/07
No where near the number that plagues per say Windows  Boot_Agnostic | 11/08/07
It's a Trojan Not Virus  joedokes | 11/08/07
Speaking of stupid  Mujibahr | 11/10/07
It's THEN not THAN!  tracy anne | 11/13/07
Would the porn be free?  Feldwebel Wolfenstool | 11/09/07
Doesn't matter how you count  JoeBob_z | 11/13/07
******** = "hard" + "core"  JoeBob_z | 11/13/07

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