Even better is this interview with one of the original authors: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=513
Especially: Do you have any advice for Windows users today? Should they be alarmed? As long as they follow standard security practices - use antivirus products and other typical things that are good standard policy - they shouldn't have anything to worry about. Our research is to some extent academic. The articles that describe Vista security as "broken" or "done for," with "unfixable vulnerabilities" are completely inaccurate. One of the suggestions I saw in many of the discussions was that people should just use Windows XP. In fact, in XP a lot of those protections we're bypassing don't even exist. XP is even less secure than Vista in this respect. [What we established is that the security advantage of Vista over XP is not as great as [previously] thought. Vista is still very good at preventing vulnerabilities. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Andrews > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 14:51 > To: Chat forum > Subject: Re: [Jchat] game over? > > don't believe the FUD. eg. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=512 > > i'm not a windows fan, but my job requires i develop on it. > i've never had > someone exploit any security holes on my vista system (but > that may be luck) > > ta, jack > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
