mikedee - 1:36 pm on Mar 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

Knowing that (as we do), wouldn't it be better to at least make it easier to reset the OS back to a known good state? System restore works in about 50% of cases and looses data so does not count, plus you cannot trust a restore state to not be infected.

Blaming the users is just a poor excuse, how are they supposed to know what is good or not? Just make it easy to remove programs and prevent anything writing to \windows would do a lot to help. I have seen XP broken many times by broken or corrupted drivers, nothing to do with the user.

What about the fact that a good rootkit hides itself, so how can you ever detect a good one from the running machine?

This software is only good for poorly written rootkits. The user will spend 5% of their time doing endless virus/malware/adware/rootkit scans and definition updates just to make themselves feel save and absolve Microsoft of responsibility, they are all still cannon fodder.