Except, it has been an XP PC on my home network running without AV or antimalware for over two years with no indications of viruses or malware. No weird processes running and restarting, no pop-ups, and performance seems roughly as good as it did when I built the system, so I have to assume it is clean.
I believe that Win98 could be run unprotected indefinitely and not become infected if the user knows what risks to avoid, so there seems to be some truth to the notion that an OS is only as secure as the user allows it to be. The important thing to remember in an enterprise environment is to lock these suckers down to protect the users from themselves. The user is the weakest link in the security chain.
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