Quote - > Quote - I read that Micro$oft also plans on charging a fee PER MONTH, for virus protection!

This tells by itself how flawed and unsecure Vista will be.
If Vista would be secure what's the need for an anti-virus?????

I'd stick to NAV or AVG.

Nothing about unsecure (maybe flawed).  Someone mentioned going to Mac.  The more popular Macs become, the more unsecure they become.  Windows is so much at the forefront of various attacks because it is the most ubiquitous OS in the WORLD!  There are literally hundreds of millions of Windows users  - and why attack a stable (but geekishly unfriendly) OS like Unix when you can attack a well-spring of easy pickin's in Windows.  MacOS barely registers on the hacker/cracker/viral radar.  But if and when they do, is Apple in for an a-reaming.

Rule Numero Uno:

No software is safe from assault.  The best, strongest, most invested-in protection cannot be totally secure against attack ever.  Most crackers/hackers use a simple rule - if you can't beat the protection, go around it.  People don't realize this.  Even if software checks against some 1024-bit super encryption every other line of code (which would render the software useless), the cracker will just find a way around the check.  There is no way to prevent this.  They've tried hardware locks (dongles), serial numbers, keys, licenses, internet verification, PGP - it doesn't matter.  Dongles are especially hilarious in that crackers just reroute the 'hardware' dongle to a software proxy that always returns the OK for the hardware.  How pathetic.

Windows XP Pro and Server 2003 are still available for free use on any street corner in China.   And this is a company that has invested literally millions in crack prevention!  The only victims here are the poor users who are subjected to the more and more Draconian 'anti-piracy' measures.

Note that SPAM is still prevalent, DOS attacks still happen, virii still propagate, and software is still pirated - all some 20+ years since these vulnerabilities became know.  The only way to stop this stuff is to make laws and enforce them internationally (extradition and all if need be).  When the crime causes time, only then will the scum diminish.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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