{"id":623,"date":"2008-05-13T20:38:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-05-13T20:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:38:37","slug":"is-vista-more-prone-to-malware-than-windows-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/623-is-vista-more-prone-to-malware-than-windows-2000.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Vista more prone to malware than Windows 2000?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So says the research department of PC Tools, apparently<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was intrigued as I’ve investigated security in Vista. I went along to the PC Tools site<\/a> in search of more information. Unfortunately there is no relevant press release in the news section<\/a> or other details. I did find an article on ars technica<\/a> that asks the questions I wanted to ask, but no answers.<\/p>\n

I also registered on the site as press in search of further information, and received my username and password back as a plain text email. Remarkable, for a security company.<\/p>\n

I don’t mean to be cynical; I really am interested, but frankly stories like this are worthless without more information. I blogged three years ago about exaggerated claims made by a security company<\/a>. These companies are unlikely to put out releases saying that we no longer need their products.<\/p>\n

My question to these security folk: given that most PC users (that I see) have been scared into using their products, why have we not seen a corresponding reduction in malware infections? It is as if the industry is glad to brag about the failure of its products.<\/p>\n

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

So says the research department of PC Tools, apparently. I was intrigued as I’ve investigated security in Vista. I went along to the PC Tools site in search of more information. Unfortunately there is no relevant press release in the news section or other details. I did find an article on ars technica that asks … Continue reading Is Vista more prone to malware than Windows 2000?<\/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":[75,93,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-vista","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}