Shoutbox

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Originally posted by lhunath
Meaning that they run with the defaults and cannot, because they don't know how to, set up a decent and secure system. I do not believe the windows firewall to be on by default, although I'm not sure about that.

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Windows default configuration is pretty secure, but I agree with you that it should be more secure (talking about IE's settings).
When you set up a new connection, the firewall is on by default. And SP2 emphasizes how important the use of the firewall is.

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Originally posted by lhunath
Now, as for commen sense, yes, that's the one and main thing that keeps you clean, even more so than any virusscanner, firewall, etc. But how many, as for the target of the Windows OS, home users have that kind of commen sense?

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But that's the user's fault, not the OS!! You were complaining about Windows not being trustworthy, but remember that when you download something, Windows warns you that it could be dangerous, yet the unexperienced people don't read that (even when there's a warning icon) and open the file, so whose fault is it? That would happen with any OS!