Windows sistematically corrupts my Linux loader

Hello!
Some time ago I wrote about how Windows corrupt my partition: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192749
Now I get another error. I desided to use windows for a while, but when I was returning to my Linux, after I choose Arch Linux in gummiboot menu I got:
Error loading \vmlinuz-linux: Volume Corrupt
The same error in this topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171936
I know, that I again can do all again for recovering linux booting: backup windows loading files, format efi partition, install linux and bootloader.
My fsck /dev/sda3 (it is my /boot) gives me the following:
fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
fsck.fat 3.0.27 (2014-11-12)
/vmlinuz-linux
Contains a free cluster (4). Assuming EOF.
/vmlinuz-linux
File size is 4065312 bytes, cluster chain length is 0 bytes.
Truncating file to 0 bytes.
Reclaimed 869 unused clusters (3559424 bytes).
Free cluster summary wrong (118280 vs. really 119273)
1) Correct
2) Don't correct
? 1
Leaving filesystem unchanged.
/dev/sda3: 177 files, 11539/130812 clusters
1 root@archiso ~ #
But I am angry to Microsoft. Will they do that every time I boot to Windows? Why they touch files, that do not belongs to Windows booter? May it just make file system unreadable?
And main question: Is it possible to restrict Windows corrupting linux bootloader?

agent0 wrote:nomorewindows, sorry for my not understanding. What do you mean under "it" in "to put it in the right place in the uefi partition"? Do you mean I need to create additional partition for /boot which will not be esp at the same time?
It looks like his kernel is at the root of the partition, and it goes under some farther subdirectory to go with the gummiboot or grub bootloader. Just from what I've read in the wiki, I haven't gotten ahold of a uefi machine and done one of those yet.
satanselbow wrote:Sounds like rootkit behaviour - offensive as it is to defend MS, this is not anything inherent in dual-booting any flavour of Windows...
Windows has a way of not messing things up with your nicely arranged partition table, anyhow.
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