No more so than they are already

Through utter saturation of nagging pop-ups. All they've done is make clicking "OK" a reflex action, so that when things actually do go wrong they can say "Well, we warned you and you said yes...". Not only that, they've made an Admin account non-admin. Who wants to be bugged about what you're doing every 5 seconds when you know what you're doing?

Honestly, with a properly set-up and maintained security system of Firewall, Anti-Virus and anti-spyware, I've not had any problems with XP. The massive, massive f**kup with Vista was their initial approach of taking that control away from people. All that meant was that hackers had one nice big juicy target to aim for, one single system to crack. Luckily, Microsoft have been forced into backing down on that.

As usual though, the biggest problem is the thing on the other end of the keyboard; so many people simply don't do the basics and then wonder why, in this age of broadband, that things go wrong.

Posted By: Iwan Husarmi on April 6th 2007 at 19:10:45

Message Thread

Help required with getting the chat room to work (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:12:43
- Works on my new MacBook Pro:-) (NCFC) - Ben, Apr 6, 15:24:31
  - You've polluted your MBP with Vista? Madness. (n/m) (NCFC) - bjt, Apr 6, 15:58:22
    - Always handy to have a working Windows install just in case (NCFC) - Ben, Apr 6, 16:27:44
  - Ooo so does the auto update!! (NCFC) - Ben, Apr 6, 15:28:12
    - Ben, can you get the chatroom applet to install? (n/m) (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:35:56
      - all works fine for me on Vista home premium (n/m) (NCFC) - blindasabat, Apr 6, 15:45:59
        
        Thats whats on my parents laptop, on of those things I suppose (n/m) (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:48:20
      - I'll give it a go in Vista in a sec (n/m) (NCFC) - Ben, Apr 6, 15:37:33
    - we love you Ben (n/m) (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:34:03
- click on the yellow bar that should be at the top of the window and then allow access (n/m) (NCFC) - Peter Kay, Apr 6, 15:15:02
  - "I get a security messsage - "windows has blocked this applet because the publisher is (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:18:56
    - Vista "Security" (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, Apr 6, 15:27:12
      - it wont let me decrease security to the point that I (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:28:28
        
        Looking at Internet Explorer - Options - Security Tab (NCFC) - watfordcanary, Apr 6, 15:35:00
        
        Sounds like you're not an administrator (n/m) (NCFC) - Ben, Apr 6, 15:33:48
        
        Um.... (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, Apr 6, 15:38:12
        
        Yes, they fucked UAC totally - or so I've read (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Apr 6, 18:58:44
        
        No more so than they are already (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, Apr 6, 19:10:45
        
        Good answer, Iwan (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Apr 6, 19:30:51
        
        Oh, I use XP at work - it's pretty rock solid (SP2 mind) (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Apr 6, 19:34:41
        
        ok, i give up. changed custom setting to enable unsigned activeX, still dont work.... (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:45:28
        
        Have you got a Java Runtime installed? (n/m) (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Apr 6, 15:51:17
        
        god knows. i've given up to be honest! (n/m) (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:57:08
        
        defo an administrator on this machine (n/m) (NCFC) - shoddy, Apr 6, 15:36:32

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