More virus education for Maccies 60

As individuals, perhaps -- but I was speaking of the set of users overall. There are still kids who put inappropriate objects in the VCR -- just as there were ten years ago. Overall, people still do foolish things and they don't learn very quickly.

You are incorrect. That is a deliberate act of personal sabotage -- a very different thing from discussing OS design. The relevant OS aspects of the computer are protected -- at the very least, by the difference in user permissions and access.

You're thinking of the same problem you gave above -- deliberate acts of an uninformed user. What about e-mail attachments? They are still common and they still work, on everyone who allows it. They don't have to open the file on their own, and they don't have to consider what it is. In OE, you can still activate virus activity just by selecting a message to delete it, right?

Yes, ALSO. Those wouldn't work if the Windows problems didn't make it possible.

PERHAPS. But it is NOWHERE near ENOUGH! How can I make this more clear? If people have to install an additional tool for protection, Microsoft screwed up. That's it -- we already know enough to say that Microsoft is FAILING to make their OS perfectly safe. Yet we know that they are doing much worse -- they are failing to make their OS safe from thousands of threats -- and for this message, let's say from hundreds of viruses. That's too messed up. Windows users need to be demanding better, and that wouldn't be too damn hard to provide!