{"id":463,"date":"2008-01-07T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2008-01-07T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T10:23:10","slug":"unanswered-question-hows-vistas-real-world-security-compared-to-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/463-unanswered-question-hows-vistas-real-world-security-compared-to-xp.html","title":{"rendered":"Unanswered question: how’s Vista’s real-world security compared to XP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading Bruce Eckel’s disappointing I’m not even trying Vista<\/a> post (I think he should give it a go rather than swallow all the anti-hype) prompts me to ask: how’s Vista’s security shaping up, after 12 months of real-world use?<\/p>\n

I could call the anti-virus companies, but I doubt I’ll get a straight answer. The only story the AV guys want to see is how we still need their products.<\/p>\n

I’d like some stats. What proportion of Vista boxes has been successfully infected by malware? How does that compare to XP SP2? And has anyone analysed those infections to see whether User Account Control (Vista’s big new security feature) was on or off, and whether the infection required the user’s cooperation, such as clicking OK when an unsigned malware app asked for admin rights? What about IE’s protected mode – has it reduced the number of infections from compromised or malicious web sites?<\/p>\n

Has anyone got hard facts on this?<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: vista<\/a>, security<\/a>, antivirus<\/a>, ie<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Bruce Eckel’s disappointing I’m not even trying Vista post (I think he should give it a go rather than swallow all the anti-hype) prompts me to ask: how’s Vista’s security shaping up, after 12 months of real-world use? I could call the anti-virus companies, but I doubt I’ll get a straight answer. The only … Continue reading Unanswered question: how’s Vista’s real-world security compared to XP?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}