The vicious circle of viruses.

    Have you ever wondered why there are so many viruses under Windows, but there are practically no viruses under Linux or Mac OS? Think because of the low popularity? Nothing of the kind, it's a vicious circle that win9x systems spawned.

    I don’t want to scold the corporation that made the product under the name of Windows now, it was real **** **** only until the advent of NT systems. In NT systems, user rights were introduced, which could fundamentally eliminate the problem of viruses .

    But people chose to sit under administrator rights, mistakenly assuming that under a regular account their rights as the owner of the computer are infringed, but this is not so.

    Due to the fact that everyone began to sit under the administrator, as well as the fact that these rights were not in systems before NT, the skillful hands of programmers who imagined themselves to be professionals and did not try to study the architecture of the operating system began to write different programs, not thinking about rights, and those that were written did not think to correspond with the new architecture.

    But many heard the words "you can’t sit under the administrator" and tried to do it, but they didn’t succeed, because most programs do not work under the usual user, so they still didn’t understand why they still need to do this, and continued to sit under the admin , and programmers continued to write the wrong programs.

    But most viruses would not be able to do anything from under a regular user, so I see the main problem of Windows in this.

    Here is such a vicious circle of Windows.

    This I want to make an appeal to Windows programmers, do the right program, namely:


    For the absence of these problems, I love Linux, in it all programs are adapted to work not as root.

    But the Windows product has the right to life if the attitude to creating programs changes.
    A vivid and popular example of an incorrect program: qip2005, fortunately, in infium, the author provided for the normal preservation of settings.

    Dedicated to Linux haters who think they know Windows far and wide, but continue to sit under the administrator. I don’t know why, but I didn’t understand it myself until I moved to Linux :)

    PS Sorry for the poor design, this is my first post in Habr.

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