Why Windows Gets Viruses So Often 

biggest mistake i made when i switched to linux.

@@lettuce7378 But you're a lettuce. How can you make this mistake?

@@HAWXLEADER obviously he entered a human and got admin acess, so he can do that easily.

@@fabio5286 script kiddies run always as root lmao because their skid tools they download require admin shit for even printing text to the terminal

@@KKk-zj6lv What we need is a NEW Commodore OS not an emulation but a NEW one that isn't compatible with anything so it will be designed from the ground up where it's ROM on top of RAM similar to the old one in that respects. You can then turn it off and on with no problems and NOT get any viruses. The Commodore 64 ACTUALLY can get a virus if you go online with it but the virus vanishes as SOON as you turn off the machine it goes back to where it was before.

@e.e.M. iii No religion in the RU-vid comment section, please.

@@Yuriyalloween You glowies are just mad because Terry knew about the space aliens

My laptop is so old the CPU ain't got time for that

Jokes on them, I use Plan 9, OpenBSD, BeOS and IRIX

No network means no viruses

The truth is strong with this one.

Does he watch anime

@creative name The question is "Which character will it be?"

@GNU pluse User name They emit darkness.

@creative name lol almost

why do you watch them and decide to continue being a "normie"

Wanna know why i think you're a weeb? Because you use the word "normie"

@@outrageous5363 honestly wish I was. The fullest extent of anime that I watch is just attack on titan 😂, and I can’t remember perfectly, since this comment is upwards of 3 months old, but I’m pretty sure the only reason why I used the word, “normie” was because I was directly quoting the RU-vidr.

@@emeraldbonsai thank you so much for replying to a comment 10 months old that was really needed

@@outrageous5363 oh boohoo shutup, mom. can you pick me up a milk shake and sandwich im thirsty

this tbh XD funny thing is they used to be the nerds

That hit me hard but was funny ngl because I’m a Mac user

@@crazydog3307 web developers mainly use Mac though

It's because the Mac OS server market share is near zero. They don't even make the xserve anymore because no one bought them. At the endpoint, a decent corporation updates their workstation every three to five years, some high end machines can last even less, the version of windows running there will be almost always the last one. But in the server side things get ugly. Many companies have critical software that can date back from the 80's. Systems that were never updated, only migrated the hardware when it failed. These software represent the core of their business, and or the companies that developed it don't exist anymore or they were internally developed and the team that made it is retired or dead. They're compatible to nothing, the data sometimes can't be exported. I've seen companies that had to develop a "middle man" system that access the data as if it was a user, and rewrites it to the new database. These stupid old system are not windows, but there are stuff from the 90's running on windows NT that are in the same situation. The data is locked there and reading those databases are as easy as translating a slab with Aramaic script on it. A

That's also the reason why corporate don't buy macs. Apart from a few CEO's and hipster programmers nobody uses Apple PCs. Macs are for "independent" work, which basically translates to "work that doesn't depend on the Mac". I.e. you can throw away the mac and not lose your investment in business software. In latest years with web software being the norm that has changed a bit, but still nobody orders a macOS app to be built for their business. You can use a web app from Mac(or any other OS), but it won't be built for Mac. On the other hand there is plenty of Windows software still being built, especially for corporate.

@@RoboticParanoia '' I've seen companies that had to develop a "middle man" system that access the data as if it was a user, and rewrites it to the new database. '' To be fair tho this is the bread and butter of your average IT guy tho

@@RoboticParanoia Unless you're talking about a fully manual conversion i.e not an automated ''man in the middle system''

Oh yeah, one-way-electric (because processor turns down) is what we need in this century.. Oh wait there is still a big Enemy we are feeding - the climate change

I was working at Apple when they completely dropped support for 32 bit programs. They really just do that, man. We had so many angry creatives that couldn't run software they depend on for work, looking for ways to get their computers back to the old version

Windows is the Todd Howard operating system. "It just works"

@@jaceybella1267 Their fault for using outdated software.

@@basedandredpilled7920 generally I'd agree, but there were plenty of people using still supported software that got screwed by the switch. DJ's in particular! Not every job or hobby requires you to use the newest stuff anyway, and having your stuff go incompatible on a device it's run on for years is frustrating

@@jaceybella1267 apple users get what they deserve simple as

I can't even manage to get a virus on windows unless I'm a complete dumbass.

I haven't gotten a virus in at least 7 years.

One time i got a ransomware, but i knew from before that it was a virus. I'm a dumbass not because i can't differenciate between something that contains a virus or not but because i don't care anyways

@@BlackDragon-tf6rv same lol

I've never got a virus

@Lenny McLennington You don't have to name it .jpeg on Windows to trick anyone because default extensions are hidden. So .jpeg and .exe look the same in case of filenames... ^^'

Tobias Frisch you can name it "example.jpeg.exe", Windows hides file extensions by default when it is a known one, so unless the user disables that he would only see the name as "example.jpeg". I have already seen some "music.mp3.exe" files out there

@Peter Andrijeczko I would agree that those shouldn't be hidden in the first place. But the general user won't open any settings and configurations they don't know about... so most Windows users keep it as default which is pretty worrying.

@Peter Andrijeczko Yes, most file formats can be determined via their header which contains an identification string. But while binary formats implement something like this, text based formats like json for example completely ignore it. It becomes also less common that people specify a doctype in the first line of html files, so recognizing those formats would be quite inefficient without extension.

@@user-yo7hz8gw4t I know, i had a cyber attack 2 years ago my windows 7. Damn the djvu. Yeah. I know about that hiding flaw

@Ben T. yes, and I've also discovered that the hard drive just keeps going when idling for no apparent reason

Also, a virus is in my pc ( sally trojan) . Ok? I know that it is a virus. When i try to remove it with normal, then admin and after that straight commandline privileges it shows an error. As if it is a system file. Fine, i booted in my live usb, removed it, and my windows starting to get even slow. Plus this virus removed my every Microsoft store app so props to the guy. And now my laptop ( i accidentally wrote pc) boots in 3.58 seconds. And shut down in 2.45 seconds

Then again, the executable package archive is genius, and it's totally worth the potential for malware.

With my knowledge of Minecraft, I can tell you that windows are made of glass, which is made of sand. If you've watched StarWars, then you'll know the wise man's quote: "Sand is coarse and gets everywhere". I can see that it has indeed gotten everywhere, and now many PCs have Windows.

"Calls to system DLLs" Why is this a problem? Linux has these as well.

All hail Saint Terry the architect! God's chosen programmer!

Based

IF YOU'RE NEVER CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET YOU CAN NEVER GET VIRUSES.

@@uwuster I- uh- um... you’re not incorrect I guess

@@supernukey419 oh wait msdos had viruses whoops

or just like, be intelligent about what you're installing XD 3rd party programs are what gives pc's their real power, since anyone anywhere can make useful software instead of just a few big tech firms

Also NT is old and insecure.

I see a simple man, he sees Anime+Linux, I like

I like to interject for a moment, what you call Anime+Linux is GNU+Linux+Anime.

@@sage5578 No, Richard, it's 'Anime+Linux', not 'GNU/Anime/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Anime+Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation. Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ. One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Anime+Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Anime+Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Anime/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Anime+Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you? (An operating system) != (a distribution). Anime+Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Anime+Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Anime+Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Anime+Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example. Next, even if we limit the GNU/Anime/Linux title to the GNU-based Anime+Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Anime+Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Anime/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it. You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Anime+Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument. Last, I'd like to point out that we Anime+Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Anime+Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Anime+Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Anime+Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Anime+Linux? Languishing with the HURD? If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this: Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Anime+Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Anime+Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag. Thanks for listening.

@@majorgamerjay5221 Good luck using just a kernel install GNU/GNU/HURD

@@mstdve4977 Sir, I don't use just a kernel. What I use is in fact called BusyBox+Anime/Linux.

normal end users are impressively bad at this stuff, though.

​@@spagootest2185 not really. I mean i've been pirating shit since i was a child(10ish yo) and haven't got a virus. And i was probably the dumbest kid on the block

@@rajder656 you probably got malware but it just went undetected

Yeah even pirating mainstream shit on TPB you'll at least download a virus once in a while. What's great is the people in TPB comments telling people "just disable AV it's a false positive." Good one 😂👍

Reminds me of getting hacked bc Flash was an insecure but necessary piece of crap.

That's funny, I switched FROM Linux after several years because the package manager was garbage.

@@Helladamnleet Probably used an ass distro that's based on Debian.

@@carmen_13 or package manager is just garbage. I stuck with it for almost 7 years and it never really got much better

@@Helladamnleet oh and windows have a great package manager... Oops there isn't one. The new "winget" is less of a package manager and more of a automatic installer which any high school student with 6 months of programming knowledge can write.

@@Helladamnleet maybe try Guix

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true, but there’s some operating systems that are less vulnerable to exploitation than others

Yes but windows is still way more vulnerable. For example while a locked door is still better than an open door both have security flaws like the lock being picked on the locked one or breaking the hinges. Both have vulnerabilities but one is more secure than the other

But some are safer than others ;)

There's no such thing as a "driver software company". That's your first fuck up.

@ターツ Well, there isn't. Drivers are provided by the OEM in 100% of cases unless you are using hardware from the dark ages before USB 2.0, and Windows has had a built in driver database in the form of Windows Update since XP SP2. Not one single "driver software company" has been legitimate.

@Rio lol, okay, that might actually work since TempleOS IS the virus.

@@Helladamnleet wait what

They can come back again and again probably because you have downloaded more junkware than one and they keep bringing themselves up, so you didn't remove everything. Also, what the hell are driver software companies? What you mostly need are drivers for Intel, AMD or Nvidia (depending on your hardware) and that's mostly it, and they have their own dedicated websites and apps that notify you of the latest driver updates. You don't need any more drivers than that to download because Windows does that automatically, so if you are visiting some fishy 3rd party websites to download, well that's inevitable you're probably getting scammed hard. But if you reeeeaaaaally need to download programs from some fucked up website, I recommend you to get something like Unchecky, it disables automatically all optional junkware toolbars and shit you don't need, but get attached to your installer.

Traditional viruses have become niche. Adwares and wanna cry plus ad scams have become the in thing especially when looking for "error solutions and drivers" online Look for this channel. He does antivirus tests The PC Security Channel - RU-vid

It probably sounds like it to non-techies.

he's in the trees

Yes

Or watching "why windows sucks" videos on Windows 10, as I was just waiting for stuff to come in before switching over to Linux. Currently 2 weeks into using Linux and am loving it, only thing I haven't enjoyed so far is the lack of Linux ports of applications and games I enjoy. I am very happy for wine and proton.

You haven't met mac users. They are not very savy either

@@fricstix7072 but the Darwin kernel has extremely strong security by default.

I agree with Reason 3. We turn around the pot without being warned on what we click on internet. One mistake could kill a hard drive!

@@zigaudrey or just run your web browser in a VM like a sane person

@@charliekahn4205 I use a computer like a normal user. How could have know this?

same with apple products. i can eat an apple or smoke weed out of it, much like how apple is a smoking piece of shit that will be eaten by Tux the fucking penguin.

@@lanpartylandlord6123 A penguin is cool, apple is cool but harder to get than a penguin. While a window just heats your house up

@@alkaupadhyay7650 damn bro what kind of windows do you have in your house

@@sixunity1171 Every window heats your house up because of the greenhouse effect.

You can't throw an object at a penguin (Tux the Linux Penguin) and expect it to shatter lol

That's what a containerized Dosbox instance is for.

yeah but normally the problem is, your co-workers might, and considering how competent your management is, they might just end up fucking everyone else over.

Those are the easiet topics. Now a days manufacturers making linux machines (god save the dell ceo) have that. The latest dell linux laptop has a hardware option to remove/eject the fucking camera. And this can be done in any machine with some specific tools

They're used to the privilege and won't let it slide. Digital Karens o.o

I thought everyone was supposed to do it this way lol

Sorry sir but can you pardon, the driver having seperate security levels. You know, i can just post a photo of a dancing penguin here and the entire youtube will crash. How? Well the image is an png.exe.bat and will force the ssystem for admin rights. Then it will turn the host into a bot, and then do the same. Some guy did this attack in 2010 or something. Why does this happen? Coz your system gave it acess to the eth0 , file explorer, google services and keyboard. All these by only one dancing penguin. So this has been done, and proves that the link btw drivers get unstable during higher level processes

well, i have heard the linux kernel has become bloated with built-in drivers

idk what ur doing, but when I installed ubuntu on my laptop, it worked pretty fine tho. It was a newer laptop too, and I kinda expected there not to be any good drivers for it.

Wasnt there some massive statistic that Apple tried to play down awhil back, where like 40% of Macbooks were found to have the same peice of malware in them, that everyone just got without knowing? I remember some soyboys took that personally for some reason and got mad lmfao.

And of course the natural progression after several releases would be to fizzle out support for the legacy programs on a theoretical windows 13, 14 etc

Not being an idiot and running strange .exe files that appeared in your download folder lol. Even most web browsers will tell you when you're on a sketchy site.

Who sais you havent got a virus on your computer 🤓

@@paulvorderegger1522 everybody's favorite, non resource hogging, antivirus you can get rid of because its not built into your operating system, windows defender

If you think that's bad, you should see what the public sector is running

I feel like, in my case as a pure Windows user, it's that I don't have a single clue what admin actually does verses a normal account so I don't any idea what would be a legit case.

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