01-31-2010, 06:49 PM
[quote JEBB]
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With Windows the lack of a requirement for the password makes installing programs (viruses) easy and a constant threat.
That is because the default operating mode for Windows is 'single user, administrator', what would be 'root, or superuser' on Unix/MacOSX/Linux.
In Windows, if you can get any system component to open {and by default, execute} any chunk of data that happens to have/be a viral payload, you're home free.
Windows has yet to have a multi-user operating environment.
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With Windows the lack of a requirement for the password makes installing programs (viruses) easy and a constant threat.
That is because the default operating mode for Windows is 'single user, administrator', what would be 'root, or superuser' on Unix/MacOSX/Linux.
In Windows, if you can get any system component to open {and by default, execute} any chunk of data that happens to have/be a viral payload, you're home free.
Windows has yet to have a multi-user operating environment.