Originally Posted by navyjax2
There is no amount of application security, NT or otherwise, that will prevent you from receiving viruses on a Windows machine.
Wrong, hence, lower assurance systems.
Originally Posted by navyjax2
They come as an attachment some people actually inadvertently run, or even as a TEMPORARY INTERNET FILE off of a site you may visit, without you even knowing, and do not need for you to run them for them to do what they are going to do.
Wrong, your failure to read is affluently made clear. Restrict administrative accounts from running untrusted applications and isolate/restrict standard users in a manner that prevents the virus from being able to propagate.
Originally Posted by navyjax2
Some just report back to the person's server information about you, like what sites you've visited from your history logs, and don't affect applications or application security at all.
It's indisputably luculent; you haven't a clue what you're talking about.
Originally Posted by navyjax2
Some disrupt network communication - which can affect ANY computer, not just Windows PCs.
I'll give you that one, even though you've left out thousands, if not millions of high assurance systems with their own super-networks.
Originally Posted by navyjax2
To say that NT application security will protect you is definitely a giving in to a false hope
This is the only (somewhat) sensible thing you've said here. Not that you meant to.
Originally Posted by navyjax2
especially without a firewall that lets that nasty traffic right in.
I don't and won't give bad advice regardless of how uneducated a user is. So please stop spreading your bad, uneducated information on the Internet! It's apparent that someone else has drug the naive, like yourself, down to applying bad habits when it comes to computer security.
Originally Posted by navyjax2
Have fun getting your trojans.
Seriously, it's not your fault you were misinformed, but read a book or two. *please*
