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Posted by: wraith808 (Tuesday 5 December 2006, 9:16 PM)

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Way to pollute a test...

Allchin said "My son, seven years old, runs Windows Vista and, honestly, he doesn't have an antivirus system on his machine. His machine is locked down with parental controls, he can't download things unless it's to the places that I've said that he could do, and I'm feeling totally confident about that."

Sophos, attempting to spin things, ran a test that did *not* follow the statement above, i.e. the OS was not locked down, and you could download things.

Why not try it under the situation that Allchin said?

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