PC Tools reveals Vista is not so immune

"Rojo Habe" wrote in message
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"jim" wrote in message
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You stated that PC Tools had something to gain by making accusations that
Microsoft's products are insecure. While that is certainly true of any
Windows based security software vendor, you inferred that they did so in
a less-than -honest manner

No, you inferred it. I believe the word you were looking for is
"implied", and having read this thread I don't feel that he implied
anything of the sort.

So, did you not read....

"Most percentages/statistics are made up to benefit those making up the
numbers. When confronted, it is usually difficult for those who made up the
numbers to present concrete facts backing them up and usually easy for
someone else to bend/make up numbers of their own to the contrary. This is
especially true when dealing with things that are difficult to quantify
because of the lack of reliable numbers (like the security of an OS versus
an older OS and knowing how prevalent those OSes are and what other
protections may already be in place that prevent the supposed issues from
ever even reaching the OS...)"

...in his post, or did you just prefer to ignore it?

jim

"jim" wrote in message
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So, did you not read....

"Most percentages/statistics are made up to benefit those making up the
numbers. When confronted, it is usually difficult for those who made up
the
numbers to present concrete facts backing them up and usually easy for
someone else to bend/make up numbers of their own to the contrary. This
is
especially true when dealing with things that are difficult to quantify
because of the lack of reliable numbers (like the security of an OS versus
an older OS and knowing how prevalent those OSes are and what other
protections may already be in place that prevent the supposed issues from
ever even reaching the OS...)"

...in his post, or did you just prefer to ignore it?

jim



There's nothing there to imply anybody's being "less than honest". They're
just doing what all businesses do and interpreting stats to suit their own
ends.