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Bad is Bad

Some programs are just bad. They don’t behave well or they act squirrelly. There is one graphics program that offers beautiful gradients and fills. However, it has psychic code: whenever you are almost done with a graphic, it locks up and loses the file.

Bad programs grab the wrong code, scribble in another program’s memory space and misbehave in the network neighborhood.

The Windows NT operating system, which includes Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista, protects itself.

When a bad bit of software goes berserk, Windows is still running in the background unharmed. What does that look like?