I'm a Mac guy, but come on. Windows XP is 12 years old. That's hardly a fair test. I haven't seen reports of Windows 7/8 machines getting rapidly infected like XP did.
I think you can be assured that the Windows Defender team does antivirus stuff for a living, just as much as AV vendors do.
Yes, but the expected time of survival of a newly-installed WinXP machine was extraordinarily short eight or so years ago - not really long enough to enable one to connect to Windows Update and get the thing protected.
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I'm a Mac guy, but come on. Windows XP is 12 years old. That's hardly a fair test. I haven't seen reports of Windows 7/8 machines getting rapidly infected like XP did.
I think you can be assured that the Windows Defender team does antivirus stuff for a living, just as much as AV vendors do.
Yes, but the expected time of survival of a newly-installed WinXP machine was extraordinarily short eight or so years ago - not really long enough to enable one to connect to Windows Update and get the thing protected.
cryptolocker, winxp to win8, it's a problem
Cryptolocker requires the user to run the executable. Users doing that are going to get infected regardless of OS.