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Windows Chief Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the steadfastly-bulletproof dept.

LadyDarth writes "During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed."

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  1. So that makes it... by aliscool · · Score: 1, Troll

    As capable as my IMac I guess.
    Good job Microsoft. Only a year or more after Apple.

  2. He's right you know by syousef · · Score: 1, Troll

    With Vista being so DRM ridden and such a hog you'll never want to use it. Therefore you'll never do anything with it, and never have data to protect on it. Hell if you try to type in anything more than a couple of characters, the UI will prevent you from doing so with "security popups". The new secret weapon is MS Clippy Nazi (tm) which will come up with phrases like "I'm sorry but you appear to be entering a credit card number. Zis vil not be tolerated." and "I refuse to accept responsibility for your data" and "You entered that data over 4 weeks ago. Please call Microsoft support to reactivate your data".

    Problem solved. No need for Antivirus.

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  3. Hackfest by siLoOfMisfortune · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vista's sourcecode is public information not to mention the kernel structure. Nuff said.

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