Comment Windows safe - but they don't do the average user (Score 1) 1262
>>you have to be a giant fucktard newbie to actually ever be affected by them.
>>the number of people who understand how to secure a windows environment are few and far between.
Microsoft's gross failure is not that the OS cannot be made secure (it can), it's that they haven't tried to educate the average mom and pop user (via initial setup) on how to do it.
For example, I'd say about 90% of the average XP user's problems could be avoided if people used Limited accounts in XP for day-to-day needs, and only used Admin accounts when they needed to install something. Why doesn't Microsoft include/train people on this as an integrated part of XP setup?
On the positive side, you can applaud MS for turning on the firewall by default in XP SP2, automatic updates, and for the integrated Giant spyware stuff coming out.
>>the number of people who understand how to secure a windows environment are few and far between.
Microsoft's gross failure is not that the OS cannot be made secure (it can), it's that they haven't tried to educate the average mom and pop user (via initial setup) on how to do it.
For example, I'd say about 90% of the average XP user's problems could be avoided if people used Limited accounts in XP for day-to-day needs, and only used Admin accounts when they needed to install something. Why doesn't Microsoft include/train people on this as an integrated part of XP setup?
On the positive side, you can applaud MS for turning on the firewall by default in XP SP2, automatic updates, and for the integrated Giant spyware stuff coming out.
