Comments

• Michael

  2011-11-02 23:48:41

  FUD:

  THE PLATFORM which made “computer viruses” analogous and often synonymous with Windows viruses just keeps delivering and disappointing every time.

  There was a time not too long ago when this was largely true - but now a new OS has become almost as malware infested as Windows. That OS: Android. Yes, Android *Linux*.
  
  http://security.cbronline.com/news/android-becomes-top-platform-for-malware-kaspersky-lab-271011 Android becomes top platform for malware: Kaspersky Lab
  
  Oh, and funny how Roy does not mention that I am the one who alerted him about IE dropping to below 50%. Just funny. I brought it to his attention in COLA. Maybe someone else did, too? Maybe not?

• NotZed

  2011-11-03 05:40:05

  You continue to demonstrate a deliberate and offensive lack of reading comprehension skills. 'made' is past tense, and thus the current situation is simply irrelevant, however fuddish and inaccurate your take on the current situation is.
  
  So apart from some professional help with your stalking problem, it seems you need some primary-school level English lessons as well, or perhaps a refresher on English as a second language?

• Michael

  2011-11-03 06:38:33

  Insults. Check. Accusations. Check. No point made. Check.
  
  Maybe you just wanted to show how angry and irrational you could be?

• mcinsand

  2011-11-03 02:16:53

  Microsoft guaranteed that Windows would be a virus magnet when they welded the desktop to the kernel and then, even worse, the browser and dozens of other utilities, as well. By having a megalithic architecture, a virus that exploits a weakness in one corner can easily own the system. Those decisions may have fended of DR-DOS, Geoworks, Netscape, and a host of other competitors, but they put Windows into a terrible position now. Only Windows has such a security-impossible structure; no other system is so anti-modular. What is hilarious are the cries that Windows is only hit more because of market share, which is pure baloney. Which will a vandal with a stone target, the glass house or the brick fortress? If a burgular wants to break in, would he tackle the building with many doors that have halfway functional locks or a standard construction bank?
  
  This is a major security issue, because so many people use Windows for transactions, for instrument and production control, and economy-critical operations. A well-crafted virus combined with a system so impossible to secure well could set up a country for an electronic Pearl Harbor.

• Michael

  2011-11-03 02:57:33

  The only OSs where a user has to worry about malware are Windows and Android (Linux). OS X and iOS users have *some* risk, but significantly less than users of those OSs.