Microsoft is sacrificing security for usability

Quite true, TA, it always surprises me, even though I should be used to it by now, when people blabble on and on about a subject they know nothing about. Kind of like annoying tourists who refuse to learn any language other than their own, and already know everything about the country they're visiting.

TA

I usually ask the Windows apologists if they are willing to run Windows for a month with no Anti Virus or Anti spyware running on their machine.

Do all of their regular surfing. Do their shopping and banking. Let their kids play online games.

I'll do it with Linux, will they do it with Windows?

The first one to get infected has to treat the other to dinner at a nice restaurant.

The more they truly know, the less likely they are to take you up on this challenge.

@number6x

That is a great challenge! Oh I can't wait to try that one out...

The last virus I got was Chernobyl, ten years ago.

Linux: Ten years without anti-virus. Ten years without infection.

> Ten years without infection.

15 years in a week or so. :)

Quoting: run Windows for a month with no Anti Virus or Anti spyware

A couple hours will bring that poor PC to its knees.

Disable th Anti virus and then open a browser to aol.com and leave it there..it won't take long.

Quoting:Ten years without infection.

coming up 8 years for me.

Seven here, thanks to clean living and Linux.

At the end of 09' it will be 5 solid years of Lovin' Linux..

Young whippersnappers...

I do believe that I am round about the 4-5 year mark. To know for sure I would have to remember things like dates and stuff.

I believe I'm about at 9-10 years using Linux as my primary OS at this point.

Five-ish. I think.

Started in early 2001 with Mandrake. Pretty much swapped to using that as my main OS straight away and now only touch Windows now when I have to at work in the office (which is not usually more than a day a week). Would love to work somewhere that is Windows-free.

I think it's been about three years for me - meaning three years since I ditched Windows completely, no longer had a use for it at work, for play, or for anything. I only use it now if I'm using someone else's computer.

My work computer is almost two years old and I've booted into XP (it came installed) exactly once.

Six. I think.

Since my last virii or since my wholesale conversion to Linux? I can tell you that the virii is more recent, as my wine picked up some bacteria in the form of a keylogger, which subsequently snagged my WoW login info.

Mind you that was my fault, as I was knowingly playing with infected files and failed to set up proper containment.

The only virus which afflicts my beloved system is sitting right behind the desk here.

I told another windows apologist about the security hole in Windows 7. The reaction was "oh well"