Comment by rufugee

I've tried to use Windows in the past, but always had that unsettling feeling that I was a mistake or two from being compromised in some way. It doesn't help that I had locked my wife's Windows (8 at the time) machine down as tightly as I could figure out how to (antivirus, etc), and she still managed to get an ad/malware infection. For those of you comfortable in this platform, what steps do you take to protect yourself?