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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0194 VISTA No More Secure than XP:

After a week of extensive testing, the CRN Test Center found that users of Windows VISTA and Windows XP are equally at risk to viruses and exploits and that overall VISTA brings only marginal security advantages over XP. One of Microsoft's big promises with VISTA was a more secure operating system. But when stripped to the bare bones and thrown into the wild, wild web, VISTA's security failed to impress Test Center engineers. Testers said VISTA remains riddled with holes, despite its multilayer security architecture and embedded security tools. Besides providing no improvement in virus protection vs. XP, VISTA brings little or no security gains over its predecessor against such threats as RDS exploits, script exploits, image exploits, VML exploits, malformed web pages and known malicious URLs, the Test Center found.

(EE Times 29MAY07)

Last Modified: Friday, 08-Jun-2007 21:03:30 EDT