Symantec is going to come up with four white papers that claims that the security of Windows Vista is potentially not all it is cracked up to be.
The papers show off the effect of “man-decades” of study into Vista, Microsoft Corp’s recent-released desktop operating system, and come up to the end that, whilst the security of Vista is of good quality, but cannot be called bulletproof.
Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging technologies at Symantec Security Response said,
Our overarching conclusion is that Vista is not a silver bullet when it comes to security.
The papers take a look at three parts of enhanced security in Vista such as memory protection, user account control and kernel-level protection - plus giving a few fine points on if the Windows XP generation of malware sways Vista or not. As maintained by the papers, three per cent of current backdoors, four per cent of existing keyloggers, two per cent of Trojans and two per cent of spyware can effectively carry out and survive a restart on Vista but for being changed, and this is not unambiguous how sound this weighs against to non-malicious software that has been brought about for XP.
