Originally Posted by VirusKiller
I don't like Vista. However, from a protection vs. malware perspective, Vista is the way to go as it's much more locked down. Those annoying "do you want to do this?" messages keep you safe. I use XP at home and work, but I know what I'm doing.

Vista is so well locked down I don't bother running antivirus on any of them. 3 at home and 4 at work. So I actually gain in performance. Some XP machines have got virus on them WITH antivirus. But nothing yet on any vista machines. Many times I've also run stuff that I never knew was going to write to program files which shouldn't. I know what software is well written and what is not. Stuff that is dumb (i.e. writes to say program files that you trust) you can mark as always run as admin. It will get one annoying bleep each time you run but that's fine. It's way better than sucking down 10%-20% of machine doing background virus scans etc. Modern antivirus has got way out of control. It's more annoying than most viruses.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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