Are you competent to run Windows safely?
That’s the title of a post at Computerworld by Michael Horowitz. And it’s a valid question that should be raised more often. Actually, it isn’t the average user’s competence that should be addressed; it’s the unnecessary complexity of Windows that is the problem. Horowitz writes:
I recently wrote about defending a Windows computer from the Clampi Trojan. Much of the advice, like disabling autorun, was pretty standard stuff. But, taken as a whole, it’s a very long list of tasks and a huge undertaking.
Windows can be made secure, but the time, effort and required technical experience is beyond many. It could well be that most Windows users are not capable of maintaining a secure system.
Unfortunately, that last sentence of Horowitz is all too true. And it is long past time that Microsoft and the rest of the computer industry recognized it.
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