"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23Y3v1J4NIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Trust me, you need Antivirus for Windows Vista, I am running Vista x64 and
> I was surprised when I did a scan with Norton AV Corporate Edition 10.2 it
> fold several Trojan horses and viruses under C:/Windows which successfully
> cleaned and deleted. But regardless of all the security technologies that
> come built into the OS, hackers are constantly attacking the platform and
> finding new ways to infiltrate the system. That is why you have Antivirus
> to stay one step ahead.
> --

this all reminds me of this bit from last year:

Allchin Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus
By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
November 9, 2006, 4:26 PM
During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft
co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows
Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that
the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was
comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus
software installed.

On the other hand, he also said this:

"I'm not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers,
both business and home, the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think
our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what
full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how
important current applications are, and really understanding what the most
important problems our customers face are"
- Jim Allchin, former Platform Products and Services Group, Microsoft.

and this:

"I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft."
- Jim Allchin, former Platform Products and Services Group, Microsoft.