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> The MS approach has always been to make money on working around defects.

Internet Explorer and Windows Defender are both free.

Also, the defect in this instance is allowing users to install software on their PCs and not helping them avoid installing malware. As this story shows, this is a defect that is shared and arguably worse on OSX.

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Well, millions or billions have been made on anti-virus software. The overhead to have every file or network operation read by some scanning program is too much. This needs to be avoided at all costs. Especially since there are better ways.

Again, the proper solution for the kind of people who would actually install a virus manually is to simply point them at the App store.

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