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Re: Microsoft admits Windows 7 security ad isn't 'sincere'

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____/ Rex Ballard on Tuesday 27 Oct 2009 23:29 : \____

> I think Microsoft would rather avoid the liability of claiming that
> Windows 7 is so secure that you don't need antivirus software, and end
> up having thousands of grandparents getting their retirement accounts
> drained by the kind of dark and scary viruses that those one-time
> script-kiddies are now writing, especially if they've been laid off.

In 2006, Allchin made a statement about it because it got him in hot water. He said his
son ran Vista without AV S/W IIRC. He had to retract.

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