I'm using Vista right now (I don't have a Apple Laptop so when I'm away I have to bring my Vista Laptop), in Vista there are a couple things that Microsoft has built into Vista that helps stop malware if it gets past the security software
There's that UAC which was mentioned by John, Windows Defender which is a anti-malware program, Address Space Layout Randomization, the Portable Executable has been updated. "Function pointers are obfuscated by XOR-ing with a random number, so that the actual address pointed to is hard to retrieve." From wikipedia The Windows Vista binaries include support for stack-overflow detection. Also there is now full support for Data Execution Prevention. Windows Vista is pretty locked down, I would feel save browsing the internet and such right out of the box without installing additional security software. Stephen On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:32 AM, John Musbach <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bruce Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > After that, Word Macro viruses vanished in the wild...I haven't seen > > one that did not come from a very old archived file in years and > > years. Why the hell Microsoft couldn't apply that lesson to the rest > > of Windows, I'll never know. > > They did, it's called UAC > > > -- > Best Regards, > > John Musbach > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
