Microsoft's inability to detect and prevent malware from surviving inside inactive profiles

[Guest Andrew McKibben]

Microsoft is so quick to offer to build out your desktop environment with the assistance of a previously used account, but cannot prevent viruses associated with the old account from being transferred to a new copy of Windows, often the reason for reinstalling Windows in the first place? Why is that? It's not for a lack of funds? How can you in good conscience EVER offer someone with a new laptop, "assistance" with an old profile unless you were 100% positive it couldn't happen? It ends up being the opposite of assistance, doesn't it?

 

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