More from PCTools about Vista Security ...... Article:
Vista laid low by new malware figures (TechWorld)
PC Tools fires back with more stats. It looks as if Vista's reputation
for
improved security could be heading for the pages of history.
PC Tools has renewed last week's attack on the platform with new
figures that
appear to back up its claim that Vista is almost as
vulnerable as its predecessors. .....
5/19/2008 12:06 PM
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=101536
Notes.... One thing missing perhaps in statistics is Users who have
hacked and
circumvented Vista's security settings such as UAC (User Account
Control)
and even simply turning that off or giving permission to malware
alerts - but
actually (them) going a lot further than that on any pc. In security,
which you
can find
at so many HiJackThis Logs forums for instance, are all these families
of
trojans that are just from bad adult sites mainly apparently. Of
course there
was the recent
"Sony rootkit" that was wrongly used as a protection for theirs. And
just
recently there was this nightmare:
Alluring MP3s, movies hit LimeWire, install malware instead
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Spy-Lerts/message/461
And of course in P2P swapping services as this - it is giving
permission to your
computer system and even the firewall is turned off by users so that
how many
of these persons are in these statistics ? They may do the "I don't
care, I just
turn off all security and download and then I get the free crap to
scan and
remove it" .
What about all those statistics. (In other words it is absurd to think
any
operating system can be run without commercial security softwares
safely).
Statistics like these do not appear to reflect that, and especially
talking
about just Vista OS (operating system) - because you will find a vast
amount of
users
parading this all over the net posting how "aggravating and annoying"
security
settings are and particularly with UAC and other features in Vista.
Going back
to the 'XP Years'
of course also involved a similar situation with DRM (Digital Rights
Management)
in Windows Media Player. When you consider the 'dark sides' of the
internet and
the "free stuff" crowds and adult oriented malicious content sites and
all the
Peer To Peer unlawful file swappings - well it does not take a genius
to realize
that
many of these persons shamelessly and openly discuss this and "work
arounds". So
my comment is for these statistics is to at least give a good "guess-
timate"
of a percentage that is as accurate as possible to disclude these
machines from
statistics. Obviously the percentage of these need that consideration
to
disclude them
with footnotes perhaps. I am sure everyone has heard of this by now -
stealing
copyrighted materials and trying not to get caught, which has not
really worked
at as unlawful.
The negative publicity is that PCTools is just pulling a "publicity
stunt for
sales" - but we all know better. PCTools is considered one of the top
security
products today. I am
just commenting here noticing there seems to be no mention of these
other stats
in this "breaking story" this past week. That can apply to any product
pubs.
SEE....
P2P Dangers (Peer to Peer file swapping)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BlueCollarPC/links
Digital rights management
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
On May 20, 6:13 am, "jim" <j...@home.net> wrote:
> Check outhttp://www.pctools.com/news/view/id/206/
>
> It reads in part "Ironically, the new operating system has been hailed by
> Microsoft as the most secure version of Windows to date. However, recent
> research conducted with statistics from over 1.4 million computers within
> the ThreatFire community has shown that Windows Vista is more susceptible to
> malware than the eight year old Windows 2000 operating system, and only 37%
> more secure than Windows XP," Clausen said. "
>
> Just thought you'd like to know....
>
> jim