Vista security ‘huge success’
p2pnet.net news:- Vista’s first 90-days, “have been a huge success as compared to the first three months of Windows XP, three versions of Linux, and even the current version of the Mac operating system”.
Who says so? Jeff Jones, the strategy director in Microsoft’s security technology unit.
He counted vulnerabilities patched in Vista, XP, Mac OS X 10.4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 within that period, says GameShout.
But the story says 90 days may be a bit early for a benchmark and, says CNET News, “Despite having the fewest security holes, Windows was hit by more critical flaws than either Red Hat Linux or Mac OS X, Symantec found.
Almost one-third of the 39 Windows holes were high severity, and 20 were medium severity, says CNET, adding:
“Just two of the 208 Red Hat Linux security holes discovered were high severity, with 130 medium severity and 70 low severity. Only one of the Mac OS X holes was considered high severity, with 31 classed as medium and 11 as low severity.
“The report found that Windows also had the most vulnerabilities with exploit code and exploit activity, which Symantec claims may be one explanation why Microsoft has been pressured to develop and issue patches more quickly than other vendors.”
Also See:
CNET News – Study: Windows has fewest security holes, March 23, 2007
GameShout – Microsoft Gives Windows Vista an A-Plus for Security, March 23, 2007
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March 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Gee Bill,
Is that a pickle in your pocket, or are you just happy thinking about that new Vista security patch you’re going to insert into our… computers…
March 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-032007.html#00001148
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/23/vista_file_extensions/
Quote:
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When working with Windows files it’s helpful to know just what type of file you’re working with, right?
Older versions of Windows used to hide the extensions by default. This was known as “Hide extensions for known file types”. It was always a bad idea, and it was used extensively by the bad guys with double extensions as a means of tricking users into running files. You know, LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.VBS and so on.
So, now we have Windows Vista.
Turns out, they still have this feature on by default.
What were they thinking? Does anybody like it like this?
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A fix for this is rather trivial – REMOVE this feature from the Explorer shell altogether. Seems like no other OS has this feature. However, what would be nice is to select only the filename (without the extension) when renaming. Total Commander has it, as well as many file managers under Linux.
“.htaccess” – “Please type a filename!”. ??????
Another annoyance: an inability to create a file like .htaccess (with a leading dot) from Windows Explorer. What I do not understand: WHY IMPOSE such a limitation in the Windows Explorer while the filesystem supports such file names without any problem? For those of you, who are running Vista, is my question: is the problem still here? Are you able to create a file like .htaccess in Windows Explorer?