False. According to many sources, including this excellent article in Wired Magazine:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/botnet.html
zombies and botnets are outstripping the ability of the most advanced securities analysts to detect and shut down, much less prevent. Estimates of the number of Windows computers infected range from 25% to 50%. This is not for want of security software, but because that software is incapable of detecting these zombies and spam bots. Running a suite of security products, no matter how advanced, doesn't provide security.
So what about all those millions of people who are running full protection on their machines and are infected. Do they too deserve what they get? Sounds to me like blaming the victim.
This compounds the errors of your previous statement. VMWare's beta has already shown that it is possible to have full duplex drag and drop capability without exposing the entire host file system to the guest. So in fact, it is not a matter of sacrificing functionality for "a few ignorant people." It's a matter of Parallels being more scrupulous about the security of users' machines and working harder to find a solution rather than pretending that the problem doesn't exist in the first place.
It's time to stop apologizing for Parallels, blaming supposedly ignorant and careless users, and hold the company to the standards that every other virtualized operating system already meets, as dkp has pointed out. That goes as much for you, as an experienced user as it is for senior sycophants who cannot bear to admit that perhaps the emperor isn't fully clothed.
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