Anonymous

Philadelphia

Musician

The issue is not whether MS should or shouldn't have the proprietary edge over this mob of other Virus protection companies. The Windows product, intentional or not, is designed in a way that allows the problems to come into fruition again and again. Without giving a history lesson, for the interested reader I wish to point out just a single point. A good portion of viruses are born from the web, are executable files, and the user (most of the time the sole user) of that system unleashes it. Because of Window's security architecture, this virus has access to the most important system files on the system (in a common setup). This is where the problem lies. Despite this, MS has not restructured things to prevent this. Why? I can't imagine. It has, however, with an inferior product, spawned a mecca of wealth and output by indirecly creating this "cartel" of antivirus companies.