OT: Microsoft is really annoying

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Bob Sneidar
>
> I suspect the "something right" you are doing is keeping
> everything currently patched, using at least one if not two
> firewalls, and installing and maintaining a good
> Anti-virus/anti-spyware application. I am an IT guy, and I can
> testify to the exact same thing. But might I offer this, that the
> successful defense betrays the attack? If it weren't a real
> problem for everyone, you wouldn't have needed to do any of those things.

Yup, that's pretty much what I do. My only point is that if you use Windows
correctly, it's quite secure, so anyone who knows what he's doing, and who
needs a Windows box to test cross-platform stuff, needn't regard it as
automatically having cooties.

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