Beginning Windows 10: Do More with Your PC

CHAPTER 11

Keeping You, Your Files, and Your Computer Safe

Back in the days of Windows 98 and Windows XP, Microsoft’s desktop operating system had a reputation of being insecure and highly vulnerable to attack, and in fairness, this reputation was well deserved. Being designed in the days before pervasive Internet access, Microsoft didn’t (or perhaps didn’t have to) concentrate on much more than a PC being a stand-alone machine connected to nothing more than the office network.

This certainly isn’t true anymore, however, as since the advent of Windows Vista, and a wholesale upgrading of the security systems in the OS, Windows is now one of the ...