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The Desktop Security Battle May Be Lost
Trailrunner7 writes in with a Threatpost.com article that begins: "For years, security experts, analysts and even users have been lamenting the state of desktop security. Viruses, spam, Trojans and rootkits have added up to create an ugly picture. But, the good news is that the desktop security battle may be over. The less-than-good news, however, is that we may have lost it. Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, said Thursday that many organizations, particularly in the financial services industry, have gotten to the point of assuming that their customers' desktops are compromised. And moving forward from that assumption, things don't get much prettier." It goes on to speculate about home routers being targeted and infected.
The major problem we actually are suffering from is that the world depends way too much on a single environment. And that environment is a kludge.
I'm not saying that Linux is much better - just somewhat better since it isn't as integrated as Windows.
As for losing the battle - this is a battle you only lose when you give up. As long as you persist you won't lose. You may get some beating now and then, but that's not a big issue since you can come back.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.