☆ Is Windows to blame for viruses?

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Simon Phipps |

A historical post, for a change. A comment on a mailing list tonight – that something was “rather like blaming Windows for getting viruses” –  sent me exploring my recollections of CPU security on Intel chips from my days at IBM. I went scurrying to find a half-remembered explanation from the past of why, in […]

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