How to deal with malware and why Microsoft has malware?

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Quote Well Unix ,Linux and Mac has had protected Kernel this was not the case with windows before windows Vista that took a step of elevated permission for just about any thing.Even the administrator was signed in as limited user that why just about any thing you do in Vista and windows 7 pops up box will ask for permission the UAC .

The windows NT and windows 2000 was more secure OS almost has good has Unix ,Linux and Mac base at that time but it was not to Windows XP and Vista to Microsoft started to take security seriously for home users and windows 7 the separation of IE and the OS.

All Linux and Mac is base of the Unix platform.The problem with DOS ,windows 2x ,windows 3x and windows 9x was every thing ran has full administrator mode . It was not to Windows XP and Windows vista they started to take security seriously but still has alot of catch up to do.

Plus there setting you go in to make your OS more secure you may find that some web sites may not work well but your OS will be more secure.
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Is that why you cannot access system files in Unix ,Linux or Mac even when sign has a administrator ?And why did windows not do this before ? But started to take security seriously in Windows XP and more so Vista and windows 7?

Answer 1

Linux users do not sign up as full administrators usually. With "root" user, they can access any system file and modify it.

Windows did a first good step by implementing separation between users (2000/XP) and implementing UAC (Vista/7). Now there are 2 problems left: Legacy code (aka code, that is written for XP, etc and has to be supported) AND being a target due to largest market share. Everything else is problems, common to all operating systems.

Answer 2

Linux does not have "administrator". It has root user. Same with modern MacOS which is based on FreeBSD (another UNIX-like OS like Linux.)



Unlike Windows, UNIX and its descendants were all created from day one to be run in mult-user environments. So user security was always a prime concern. Meanwhile, Windows was originally developed on top of DOS, which was a single user system, so there was little, if any, security built into it.



Even when Windows NT came around, which was a complete rewrite using the help of the DEC corporation (makers of another *NIX-like system) these flaws still remained - such as allowing a regular user process the ability to access hardware directly. This is mainly why viruses, and also malware, are so devastating under Windows even today. On a *NIX type system, the worst a malware package could do would be to corrupt the user's account because those are the only permissions it would have.



Windows7 has some impressive user tools in place but honestly they're not implemented well at all. Most people just get tired of having to allow whatever program to do its job, and as a result run as Administrator (or with Administrator-like privileges) and also turn the tools off entirely so even if something WERE to do something suspicious, it no longer raises an alarm on the system.



That said, I'd really like to hear someone at Microsoft explain the real reason why they thought it was a good idea to allow my frakking WORD PROCESSOR the ability to FORMAT MY HARD DRIVE.

Answer 3

Well if you go back in history, Windows XP 1 didn't even come with a firewall.



OS 9 for Mac's wasn't even based on Unix like OS X is, Mac's at that time had such a low market share and high prices that hardly anybody used their computers to bother hacking for it.



The Internet came along and caused all sorts of problems, Windows XP was designed for local area networks, maximum compatibility within a corporation, not on the murderous Internet. So patches were thrown on it, over and over, but Microsoft really needed a rewrite. Thus Vista/Win7.



Steve Jobs came back to Apple computer with the NeXT OS, based upon BSD Unix which the military used for their computer needs. The core was robust to deflect the malware from the Internet, but still had a lot of surface issues.



Apple, because they didn't have a huge market share with a lot of businesses to support, could flip over to new secure OS rather quickly. Microsoft had to move more slowly, why XP was around for so long causing headaches for everyone with the Internet. It's still around causing headaches.



And before the Internet, nobody had a need for a secure OS like Unix really except the military and research scientists. Linux is a clone of Unix because Unix was proprietary at the time.



The concept of "root" "admin" and "users" with different levels of system access, is really a military concept called "compartmentalized security". It's so that not one password or bypass has access to entirely everything on a computer.



So everything started to change when the Internet arrived, it's just Apple was able to move faster than Microsoft why XP was so insecure for so long.

Answer 4

Microsoft creates and markets malware. They call them operating systems... That's my opinion.

Answer 5

I think you should take this up with Bill Gates.

Answer 6

WHAT THE HE** IS YOUR QUESTION!?!?!? You seem to like to hear yourself write/talk.

Answer 7

dont no