Microsoft offers security test drive 6609

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:24:29 -0700, Freeride

I know what you mean, but what if you buttume people bought the car without the locks but bought 3rd party locks instead. Only to find that the locks are so heavy they slow the car down conciderably and starting her up from cold, you might as well turn the key and go for a coffee, installing the locks is no fun either such that the car wont go at all until you restart it three or four times after fitting the locks.

Then the lock makers realise that with this car the lock is essential, so they break quite a simple device into smaller parts and charge daft prices for each bit. Then just so you don't forget that the lock is there, you get loads of stickers appearing on the windscreen telling you that 'Your lock is locking the car'.

I don't really blame MS for concidering whether supplying built in locks is a better way to go. They must be conciderable advantages in having anti-virus at a lower level in the system, rather than as an application. Well, there would be an advantage if said system actualy had an layers rather than just two 'all access' or 'no access'.

The down side of MS doing it for themselves is that in times past Norton have plugged MS's deliberate holes in the system, like those that allow MS's third party partners to pop up messages in MSN messenger.