NSA Trapdoor Access Built into Windows Drivers ADVAPI.DLL

Just for the record ALL windows system have a backdoor nowadays this is why they have to update them so much and why they are so unstable.

AC, .dll files can be treated as .exe's and even as drivers. Take a look at your graphics driver files and see which one(s) are active in your computer's RAM. More than likely it'll be at least one .dll file acting as a driver. I know NVIDIA has at least one .dll file to do that.

Just for the record, with tens of thousands of hackers and security researchers working hard, there is no evidence that
what you state here is true.
Problematic applications the last few years have been Adobe Flash Player and other addons to Microsoft's operating systems.
Windows 7 is pretty tight.
Nobody should be using windows OS from before Windows 7.
And nobody should be running any desktop computer with an
administrator/root account.

due to the vast numbers of variable names used in an OS the size of windows, one with the three letters NSA is inevitable just due to chance. I guess the NSA is as dumb as a CIA undercover agent wearing a name tag with a CIA logo regarding their file names if this story is to be believed. I believe it was mentioned that debug symbols are available to anyone who wants them. It is possible to change almost anything in windows with a driver development kit. It is just that Microsoft won't certify it if they don't like what you did. There will be a "use at your own risk" prompt when installing software. Anyone saying debug symbols availability is a Microsoft security leak is just ignorant, they are freely available. Besides all this, Microsoft software is scrutinized by more hostile eyes for security problems and other things that would be embarrassing to Microsoft than any other OS. If Windows opened up a TCP/IP port to a server at the NSA and started sending network traffic it would be instantly reported on the internet far and wide by all the Linux fanboy 'windoze' watchers.

I wouldn't start out just on linux. Dual booting is safer, and I dual booted for years.

Don't like Ubuntu, but Mint Linux 64 bit, is based on it and quite nice, as is pinguy 64 bit. And they work out of the box for the all the video and dvd drivers.

The best linux so far, that I have ever tried over many years, remains the same: Pclinuxos and now they also have 64 bit. It is far less glitchy than the other two. You don't have to worry about updating the computer through sypnasis and suddenly loosing sound, like ubuntu, and that happened to me on my pinguy after installing wow in wine for the boys.

But the process of insuring YOUR wireless driver is amongst the chosen ones in a distro.....

So you begin with dual booting, and in the end if you're not a heavy gamer, and only play the few, such as wow, that works with wine, and your printer is good, many printers work fine now, you can later install a different linux on the windows compartment and dual boot two different linux's.

However if the wireless doesnt work, you'll be in windows looking for your distro's advice on how to MASK a driver, and Install or Unmask the one you need, like I did. Then it worked just fine.

Also if you use certain programs like IMBU or whatever its called, that the kids like, its only windows programa and doesnt run in wine.

I don't dual boot any longer on mine, its all linux. But they have windows for their gaming.

Pclinuxos 64 bit is my first and main, and then mintlinux 64 bit is the second one and its good, but I only do the upgrade once, and you have to be careful its only a distro upgrade, otherwise the ubuntu sypnasis wants to recode your sytem and convert it all to theirs.