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Re: Microsoft offers security service
From SecurityFocus by Kelly Martin:
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Since the $2B spyware cottage industry is exclusively a Microsoft problem, I still find it appalling that they would market new software to patch their own product's weaknesses. It seems an awful lot simpler to just fix the problems in IE.
With Microsoft entering the anti-virus market, we now have to ask ourselves basic questions around the issues of trust, honesty and integrity from a company known to have predatory marketing practices, where the fine line of walking along a legal tight rope takes precedent over any ethical or moral higher ground. Can you really trust Microsoft exclusively to protect your computer from security threats? What is their track record thus far in addressing security concerns in a timely manner?
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Since the $2B spyware cottage industry is exclusively a Microsoft problem
It is not Microsoft's problem. People like me see the real issue, and it's not spyware or viruses via security holes. The problem is getting other people to see the real issue, the real reason why Windows has virus and spyware problems, and the why and the how it isn't Microsoft's fault.
Not everyone is as computer savvy as me, unfortunately. Therefore, Microsoft must take things into their own hands to protect users from themselves. Laws are also made to protect people from themselves from certain things, because they cannot handle or do not want to share the responsibility.
I get dirty with viruses and spyware and purposely visit malicious URLs, as only some of you know. Read my blog. I run then 1) with the admin account and, 2) with a limited user account (extremely difficult infection rate). I haven't seen one or been across one that automagically installed itself (they just needed the user to click Yes). So if anyone is still going to tell me it's Microsoft's problem, i'd kindly have to shove them off to the side.
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