Windows antivirus measures failing?

What a shocking article! How many programs will Windows try to sell you if it found a spyware or malware on your computer? Why doesn't it ask you if you wanted to delete it?

My Windows (and Mac) computers have been running without anti-virus for 3 years without a single hickup (in contrast to all the choking caused by the anti-virus programs I use to have to maintain and over the years get sucked into higher TCO). My computers run non stop and go to hundreds of web sites each week. I do not open weird email attachments. Actually, my various email providers clean viruses, and from time to time have notified me that they removed a virus attachment.

show that while a few programs are adept at picking up known trojans viruses,

Trojans viruses?

And isn't one of the points of malware/viruses/trojans/etc is to avoid detection? So wouldn't you think those writing them would try to make them undetectable?

BUt I agree with makesense. I don't run anti-virus software on my macs or PC, as it just slows things down.

Even with antivirus software at work, I think I recall only one email trojan going around in 10 years. The virus programs picked that up, BTW.

There's only one sure fire cure for viruses on PCs and that it to shut down MicroSHIT; the plague that curses those poor souls that don't know any better.

Of course the utility flagged WIndows shell as malware. It is!

Yo! Just a few days ago while doing your daily trolling you said this in a thread regarding my criticism about Symantec's Mac anti-virus tripe, and Mac anti-virus in general, and my position that anti-virus on the Mac is worse than a waste of time and money.

"It's not about politeness, it's about business common sense. If you pass along a file that had a virus attached to it, how does that make you look in the eyes of the receiver, anyway? "Hey, look, gskibum3 sent me a file with a macro virus in it. I wonder if I should be doing business with someone who cares about his work so little as to not even bother scanning the files before sending them out..."

But, hey, if you want to live in your little world of "It's a PC virus, what do I care", feel free. I'm sure the people getting the work you would be getting will be pleased."

So this week you state you don't use anti virus on your Macs? When a week ago you said NOT using anti virus lacks business common sense.

Nice.

Get a life you pathetic troll.

Compared to the virus free world of Mac, you have to wonder why anyone would put down good cash on these machines.

I don't know a single person, on windows, who has be able to avoid this problem. It seems like every 4 months or so the IT guy has to come in an reinstall Windows on our office machines to combat this crap. Only to have to repeat it again a short few months later. You can imagine how they increasing regard my Mac in high regard as they go through this.

Recently there was a warning for Mac users about the security of their platform. Yet, if you think about it, this is the big story and-in my experience-the more factual. Macs are still running without virus, malware and spyware attacks.

But I probably wouldn't feel confident doing business with someone who pays so little attention to what they read and write that they misspell someone's name (testudo, not "testudio") when it's been repeated *ad nauseum*, either.

the economy. Look at what monde pointed out - how many IT guys would be out of work if enterprises ran on Macs?

I just assume they can't spell, or intentionally misspell my name (although I don't understand the testudio misspelling, unless it's Phil Collins writing it up - testurdo, or testicludo is usually the age level of the posters here).