Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jun 2006 12:11 UTC, submitted by John McWell
More than 60 percent of compromised Windows PCs scanned by Microsoft's Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool between January 2005 and March 2006 were found to be running malicious bot software, the company said. The tool removed at least one version of the remote-control software from about 3.5 million PCs, it added. That's compared with an overall 5.7 million machines with infections overall. "Backdoor Trojans [...] are a significant and tangible threat to Windows users," Microsoft said in the report. 
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2006-02-22
A driving license for Windows – the problem is with all the security problems of Windows, Windows is no longer a suitable OS for the non-technical. You need to run a firewall, setup and understand the rules, run an up-to-date AV and keep it fully patched, etc. This takes time and is beyond many users, who just want to turn their PC on and use it like a tool – TV, typewriter, etc and why not?
Many people would be much better off running Linux. By way of illustration a friend was continuously pestering me to fix his PC, viruses, ad ware, instability etc. Eventually I’d had enough and installed Xandros (he’s had no problems for over a year). He can write his email, type letters, use a spreadsheet, and surf the net.
It’s a shame, that something such as getting SUSE to play DVDs is so complicated – and yes changing the synaptic sources to download libdvdcss in Ubuntu is way beyond the abilities of many PC users.
Windows looks easy and isn’t – Linux can be more difficult than it ort to be.