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Banana
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Join Date: Feb 2005
 
2008-06-06, 12:47

For starters, it could silently installs bad stuff in name of convenience. With other OSs, you get a dialog asking for confirmation if you really want to run (with exception of that stupid "Download Safe File" option in Safari). Windows does prompt for this as well, but my understanding is that it's not always and you just have to say it's from Microsoft and you get instant access to everything in Windows.

Then there's IE's lenient security- just toss in an nasty ActiveX and you can basically do whatever you want. This may have changed with IE 7, however.

Oh, and Windows XP shipped with Remote Assistance enabled, IIRC. Don't know if Vista still does that, but this is one of other defaults where you have to change to make it properly secure.
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