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This is fundamentally Microsoft's fault. The shareware culture of Windows is insanely insecure these days. Any sane operating system should have a packet mana

This is fundamentally Microsoft's fault. The shareware culture of Windows is insanely insecure these days. Any sane operating system should have a packet manager, with all the software you could want included, and nothing you don't.

tobias3 12y ago
With Microsoft having that large a share of the PC market this would result in anti-trust lawsuits. I think this issue must be solved on a regulatory level, i.e. Google (and Bing!) should be punished for providing malware links (and the actual providers of course).
MartinCron 12y ago
This is one of the reasons why I love using Chocolatey. Downloading and running an installer from an arbitrary site feels both quaint and dangerous.
freehunter 12y ago
Yeah it's Microsoft's fault for allowing third-party applications be be installed on their OS. You'd never see OSX or Linux letting people install software without going through a walled garden.
- sjolsen 12y ago
  >You'd never see OSX or Linux letting people install software without going through a walled garden. I can't speak for or against OS X, but with respect to Linux this is plainly false, unless by "Linux" you mean "Android" or by "walled garden" you mean "basic user authentication."
  - frrad 12y ago
    Pretty sure parent was being sarcastic
    - sjolsen 12y ago
      It's so hard to tell sometimes.
- upofadown 12y ago
  It isn't really a walled garden. It's just that pretty much everything is inside the garden and there is very little outside that that anyone would want. Interestingly enough, the only commercial software that Linux people regularly install is it's own separate walled garden; Steam.