Thanks, Captain Obvious!

I’m not sure who missed the meeting, but the folks at Sophos, if they were in attendance, certainly did not take any notes.

It’s strange how many times things can be fluffed over in such a way that to the casual observer they seem completely different. At least that’s what we are requested to believe.

From slashdot we have a little note -

As Windows 7’s market share passes 3.6%, up from 1.9% the day before launch, llManDrakell notes an experiment they did over at Sophos. They installed Windows 7 on a clean machine — with no anti-virus protection — with User Access Control in its default configuration. They threw at it the next 10 virus/worm samples that came in the door. Seven of them ran; UAC stopped only one baddie that had run in the absense of UAC. “Lesson learned? You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7.”

I suppose someone had to say it, but not in any way you would notice. You see when you install there is a notice almost immediately that no antivirus program is running, coupled with the suggestion that you try out their spiffy new product, called Microsoft Security Essentials.

I would think that the coupling of those two things just might clue you in.

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certain things need to be pointed out to some more than once…per day.

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