It seems like every MS Windows machine I see is infected. The sample may be skewed by the nature of my day job and user error is a contributing factor but clearly Windows has vulnerabilities that cost individuals, businesses and other organisations a lot of money every year in antivirus software, virus removals and wasted IT staff labour. I can't help thinking that money could be put to better use.
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Windows XP machines?
Frankly I haven't paid for anti-virus software for a couple of years, using the free versions of avira, avast and since general release Microsoft Security Essentials.
As mentioned before the only incident i had was running a file that attempted to delete files from my HDD, something that is harder to achieve on Vista or later machines (especially when running as a user without admin rights).
At work I get a steady stream of infected machines that have Microsoft Security Essentials installed. Those users may be less careful than yourself, but I have to wonder if Microsoft can write antivirus software that works, why not omit the vulnerabilities in Windows in the first place?
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