Alan wrote:
Turn on auto-update. Don't open attachments that you don't know are
coming. Stay away from the seedy side of the Internet. Don't share
software with your classmates. Don't install anything of the
Weatherbug/CoolCursors ilk.
It doesn't work anymore.
You *will* accidentally click on something on Windows. Your Windows
computer *will* get a remote zero day exploit. Your virus scanners
*will* fail to detect the newest viruses.
Once you make *one* mistake in Windows, the latest viruses will blow
right past everything. I don't understand how businesses aren't
screaming for Microsoft's head, at this point.
Only Microsoft can change the "administrator by default" mindset that
they ingrained into everybody. And Microsoft does *not* want to do this
because they're going to get a lot of "why can't I install my program?"
calls that are going to cost them a lot of money.
-a
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