Microsoft CEO spends two days trying to clean Windows PC malware

"Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here's
one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin told at a recent Windows
Vista reviewers conference about chief executive Steve Ballmer," David
Frith reports for Australian IT. "It seems Steve was at a friend's
wedding reception when the bride's father complained that his PC had
slowed to a crawl and would Steve mind taking a look."

"Allchin says Ballmer, the world's 13th wealthiest man with a fortune
of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of
worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without
success," Frith reports. "He lumped the thing back to Microsoft's
headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent
several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100
pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate."

Frith reports, "Among the problems was a program that automatically
disabled any antivirus software. 'This really opened our eyes to what
goes on in the real world,' Allchin told the audience. If the man at
the top and a team of Microsoft's best engineers faced defeat, what
chance do ordinary punters have of keeping their Windows PCs virus-free?"

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