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In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses
As Windows 7's market share passes 3.6%, up from 1.9% the day before launch,
llManDrakell notes an experiment they did over at Sophos. They installed Windows 7 on a clean machine — with no anti-virus protection — with User Access Control in its default configuration. They threw at it the next 10 virus/worm samples that came in the door. Seven of them ran; UAC stopped only one baddie that had run in the absense of UAC. "Lesson learned? You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7."
This is /. 8 out of 10 people here will only ever have sex with their right hand. :)
And the other 2 with their left hand.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Windows 7 had 1.9% market share before launch?
So 8/10 viruses don't require administrator permissions and conform to Windows development standards. If only the rest of the software industry had such high standards.
New tests show that software written for Windows runs on Windows! Copycat studies have also shown conclusively that software written for Macs run on Macs and software written for Linux runs on Linux! More at 11.
What about ambidextrous people. I'm just asking.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Antivirus software vendor has reached the conclusion that you still NEED antivirus software.
Think of it from the wife's perspective.
They've been good and faithful for ten years, and BAM, syphyllis, HIV, and herpes.
Because they KNEW their husband wasn't a dirty cheating bastard.
Can tell you're not married. No woman who's been married for 10 years still has sex with her husband.
You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7
There's a classic example of abductive reasoning. I do not have to run anti-virus on Windows 7 because I don't, nor do I ever plan to run Windows 7.