![]() ![]() Linux and MacOS X are way more ‘transparent’ in terms of showing you what is actually happening on your computer than Windows is. With Windows, there are numerous ways to hide programs from the process list, the registry is a labyrinth in which spyware/adware/viruses can hide their markers and the average user is effectively prevented from seeing what is actually going on on their PC even if they want to know. You can see with the process list exactly what is running, under what user account it was started, and you can easily clean/monitor the machine remotely. In Mac/*NIX there really arent many places for spyware to ‘hide’ – and when you remove an application by deleting it, you know its gone. How exactly does OS X or Linux protect you against an application bundled with a spyware program that pops up advertising windows every so often which *tells the user* the spyware program is going to be installed when they run the little script to install it? ![]() If you’re at the point where the user is actively helping you install the app in question despite you telling them exactly what it does, no operating system design on Earth is going to help them. Hell, they even tell you in the sodding LICENSE AGREEMENT that they’re going to put spyware on your machine. I kill the spyware and uninstall those pieces of crap, next week, I’m back again and, surprise surprise, every P2P app in the history of the universe is back on the machine. I have to wipe a couple of pieces of spyware off a fried’s machine *weekly* because, no matter what I fricking do, I can’t convince them to stop using bloody P2P programs. The principle source of spyware, no matter what the idiots tell you when you go to fix their machines, is user interaction. ![]()
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