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To: basserdan who wrote (103905)	7/8/2009 2:36:26 AM
From: benwood	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 109991

Anybody who uses IE is asking for it, based on history. But even with Firefox, my dad has managed to download malware twice now. This past week, it included a DNS redirector (you are taken to advertising web sites no matter what you try to do); a key logger (to steal passwords and raid bank accounts etc.); and a back-door to let the hacker get into the computer; and a root kit in the registry to reinstall everything if you delete part of it. Beautiful. I managed to get rid of it all after about five hours of effort, eventually booting Fedora 11 Live on his computer so I could delete some of the hidden Windows files. Files hidden even from File browser (with hidden files turned "on"); hidden processes that you can't see, and if you use a command prompt, you can see them with a switch but you still can't delete them. The more I know about MS Windows, the more I loath it. And my experience with Vista has been even worse.