RayLopez99 has brought this to us :
> On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 10:58:09 AM UTC+8, Virus Guy wrote:
>  
>> 
>> Enjoy your NT-based version of Windoze.  NT - Where the vulnerabilities
>> go in before the name goes on.
>
> OK I see.  And there are people who still believe in MS-DOS (and it's 'virus 
> free').  Dustbin is probably one of them.

Everybody knows (or should) that viruses don't care at all what OS is 
being used - all general purpose computers are at risk.

> I've never had a serious problem with viruses in Windows NT or subsequent 
> versions.  Sometimes you do get software driver issues that require a 
> rollback, so I backup every two weeks and data more frequently.  Also on 
> occasion my PC will freeze (no mouse, no nothing) on a porn site due to I 
> suspect either Flash or equivalent not working properly (which I try and keep

> up to date) or some virus trying to take over the OS and Windows shutting it 
> down.  On my BIOS I've checked the 'prevent buffer overruns' that AMD's bios 
> motherboards have, not sure if it helps but supposedly it's for a sort of 
> hardware anti-virus protection.

It's a Data Execution Protection (DEP) scheme. More about stopping a 
particular kind of exploit than it is about stopping viruses.

>  I use just Windows Defender for my AV.
>
> If you're really paranoid about protection I guess you could surf the net 
> using some small market share OS like Linux from a Windows Virtual Machine, 
> like Oracle's VirtualBox.

That's a good idea. There is some malware which escapes from the hosted 
OS, but most just detect the environment and opt not to trigger the 
payload in a VM.
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