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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 830159">Well to be fair hindsight is always 20/20. IMO I don&#039;t think its necessarily MS fault. I think a lot if what we see today really wasn&#039;t on the mind of anyone at the time. I mean if you go back to windows 95 days and tell the programmers about these issues, some may look at you like your a little crazy IMO. It really was the advent of the internet, scripting, etc.. that has lead to this IMO. Take those away and no one would have any issues other than a USB type malware.Also, it really has to do with marketshare. Windows still remains the marketshare king when it comes to OSes, so naturally, it will always be a target. Personally I think Windows has become more secure because of it. It will always be an evolution and many times if you don&#039;t know its there, how can you fix it? Take a look at the whole spectre/meltdown fiasco. No one really thought that these issues were there, until they were discovered. Now that they have been discovered, you see these issues pop up all the time, as more people are poking around cpus much more now than before.One could say that linux and macs are more secure and/or did things better (which they did), but if I had to guess, my gut tells me that if linux and mac is got the same attention that Windows does, there would be security issues left, right and center.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 830159"] Well to be fair hindsight is always 20/20. IMO I don't think its necessarily MS fault. I think a lot if what we see today really wasn't on the mind of anyone at the time. I mean if you go back to windows 95 days and tell the programmers about these issues, some may look at you like your a little crazy IMO. It really was the advent of the internet, scripting, etc.. that has lead to this IMO. Take those away and no one would have any issues other than a USB type malware. Also, it really has to do with marketshare. Windows still remains the marketshare king when it comes to OSes, so naturally, it will always be a target. Personally I think Windows has become more secure because of it. It will always be an evolution and many times if you don't know its there, how can you fix it? Take a look at the whole spectre/meltdown fiasco. No one really thought that these issues were there, until they were discovered. Now that they have been discovered, you see these issues pop up all the time, as more people are poking around cpus much more now than before. One could say that linux and macs are more secure and/or did things better (which they did), but if I had to guess, my gut tells me that if linux and mac is got the same attention that Windows does, there would be security issues left, right and center.;) [/QUOTE]

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