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One more thing ... "opening insecure attachments" and all the problems that brings as well as spyware, adware, etc are NOT faults of the operating system in my opinion. So those "problems" should not be attributed to windows per se.
However, since applications like Outlook and IE are exposing the system to such vulnerabilities, Microsoft is the correct target for blame. My comments above about security have been about "windows" as an OS versus Mac and Linux as OS's as opposed to the PC platform as a system.
The PC platform has potentially MANY weaknesses compared to unix platforms but the applications we install (like peer to peer file sharing, outlook, IE, etc) are often the major factors to blame and not the OS.
However, since applications like Outlook and IE are exposing the system to such vulnerabilities, Microsoft is the correct target for blame. My comments above about security have been about "windows" as an OS versus Mac and Linux as OS's as opposed to the PC platform as a system.
The PC platform has potentially MANY weaknesses compared to unix platforms but the applications we install (like peer to peer file sharing, outlook, IE, etc) are often the major factors to blame and not the OS.
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