Spyware? In My Vista?

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 5:25 pm. 0 comments
Posted in Microsoft, Vista.

It may be less likely than you think! Its up for debate whether Windows Vista will be the most secure Windows OS ever to market. The same thing was said for Windows XP, and look what happened, first we had the Messenger popups, then the Blaster worm, then we all had to go to SP1, then we had to jump ship to SP2, then we had VML and other things floating around, and now we’re forced (by user interaction) to go to IE7. So its been stormy seas in XP land, while MAC heads jump around feeling secure.. (MACs your day will come!) So… Betanews posted an interesting article where they were misquoted for misquoting a quote which in summary stated, "Windows Vista will not need antivirus" (GASP) What?? How is that possible, could you imagine a world where we don’t need to buy Mcaffee to slow down our systems, and we don’t need Norton hogging all system resources, and we don’t have to pay a subscription fee ontop of buying AV software for $50. Think of all the money that would be saved! The security behind Windows Vista is its User Access Control. The very annoying popup that would come up if you did anything risqué like install a program. It even lets Windows XP programs think they are actually writing to the registry but instead its just a virtual look a like for compatability reasons. So all new users will be under UAC, and it should be good enough to prevent little johnny from downloading coolgames.exe.