viruses are bullshit made up by microsoft. Connection to the web activates a sort of counter, that slowly adds a lag to your computer over time, the variable being the price and quality of your operating machine. The company secretly owns shares in all known and certified (ie paid for) virus programs, profiting from every sale virus program xxxxx. Their recent financial conquest being "AVG". Apple, in an under-the-table deal, secretly inherits a percentage of Microsofts virus scam income to refer as well to this "lag- counter as a virus or "spyware". On there machines they simply state that their systems use an "unbeatable" virus system, when really the virus in question does not exist. This is, of course all exepted by the public as it is for the most part beyond there knowledge and quite simple. Well, now you know.
I hate Microsoft but... If Microsoft were to program a 'virus' into it's operating system, it would be more benificial to have them affect performance as little as possible. Virus is a pretty vauge term. Microsoft already has as much personal data as most people send them when they register. Companies like symantec are publicly traded, and Microsoft would have no reason to provide source code to a rival software company. There are also freeware antiviruses which work about as well as symantec or other propreitary software. Furthermore, most viruses now don't target operating systems. They look for exploits in codes of web apps. OS exploits are still common though. Do you have any evidence of this? Source code exploits of common viruses which can be linked to prominent microsoft or norton products? Most of the spyware online isn't well programmed. I'm not a computer science person, but that doesn't make sense.
close but no cegar. what microswuft does build into every o.s. it sends out there, is a backdoor to the con artist industry, which can be and is, exploited by every mischivous enwii filled adolescent retard. without it, things like popup advertising, indeed any conartistry on the web, that wasn't invited by sitemakers or at least their hosts, would not be possible. it is the same opportunity for THAT, and for the o.s. to block even the legitimate owner user of their own machine to access some parts of it (without bypassing the o.s. itself). i DO consider the practice a dishonest one and DO hold microswuft culpable for it. but it isn't quite a built in virus. just damd close enough to it as far as i'm conserned to make the difference a quibble over terms. the kind that enriches lawers AND bizdroids at the expense of everyone else. =^^= .../\...
The problem of popups has nothing to do with a backdoor in a microsoft OS. Popups are mostly caused by spyware that has been installed on your machine, or incorectly configured ephemeral ports. Ephermeal ports are temporary ports that services (like IM's, games, p2p's, web app's) use. Often poorly designed app's leave their ephermeal ports vulnerable, or leave back doors so that it is easier for developers to work on later. These are often discovered by hackers who use them maliciously. Security holes in microsoft products are released (although much slower then for *nix), but these aren't backdoors. If there were a backdoor in a microsoft OS, you could have someone that could do something much much more harmful. Like create a means to use everry computer running windows as a zombie. With that many zombies, you could possibly shut down so many mainframes that the internet could become inaccesible in some areas through enough DOS attacks. You could also use them to brute force and break the encrpytion schemes that online vendors use. A backdoor in an OS would be a huge deal. It nearly happened to the 2.4 kernel which would have been a major problem for net security. Of course any service could cleverly find a way to install a backdoor. In this way infected systems are used to do tasks like send spam... But that's nothing on the degree of a backdoor programed in an OS. There was a backdoor found in hotmail though, which was one of the larger backdoors found. It's still used a lot by spammers.
Shit man you are good at explaining things. That actually makes alot of sense, and im definitly not to computer savvy
