Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th May 2007 13:19 UTC
Months go, I reviewed Windows Vista, and concluded: "All in all, I am impressed by Windows Vista [...]. Windows Vista is better than XP, and definitely more than just an improved look as many say." After 5 months of usage, it is time to put that statement into perspective.
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There are more articles
Lets review them:
http://www.techsphere.org/wordpress/2007/05/08/microsoft-withdraws-.....
Mark Russinovich tells how hackers would find a way around UAC through social engineering or by compromising applications that run with higher privileges.
Duh. No OS is immune to that.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286677,00.htm
Man wrote the tool which can enable/disable protected processes. Requires loading a driver, needs to be running with elevated privileges.
If you load bad driver in the kernel that's your fault, not OS. Moreover, that binary doesnt work on 64bit Vista.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38926
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39087
No comments, typical inq "humorous" BS.
http://vista.blorge.com/2007/05/08/security-built-in-to-vista-fails...
Windows Defender didnt detect all running spyware.
Not an issue since there should be no spyware in the first place. I never had any malware on my Windows boxes.
, Vista is abhorrent:
None of the articles you provided lead to this conclusion, try again.