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M$ is a marketing company, a marketing company that delivers its marketing research via its marketing data collection product called "Windows". Most of the things that are being called "bugs" are, in fact, put in there specifically for their "Special Marketing Partners", a high-ticket bunch of companies who are allowed access to the APIs for these marketing data collection functions. They also have built in layers of redundancy on these functions, so when one gets exploited or discovered, they can issue a patch, close it, and let the SMPs know where the fallback position might be. Of course, clever people know they are in there, play reverse-engineering games and then write exploits.
M$ philosophy is that your HDD acreage belongs to them, under terms of their EULA, and therefore, they can mine it for anything they goddamned well please, your personal privacy be damned.
Vignette: I was doing an update the other day on an XP machine with Kerio Personal Firewall installed and running. During the update's installation phase, it connected, multiple times, to Hotmail servers. M$ owns Hotmail. Why? Why,during an update, must that happen? Because M$ just doesn't care about your privacy. It collects marketing data and sells it. That is their cash stream. The OS is ancillary.
The best security and virus protection program is two step:
1. At a command prompt, type "fdisk"
2. Stick a Linux or BSD install disk in your CDROM and reboot.
It's cheaper, too.
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