Vista Security — Too Little Too Late

Thomas Greene of The Register has a fairly comprehensive review of Vista and IE7 user security measures. The verdict is: better but not adequate, and mostly an attempt to shift blame onto the user when things go wrong. From the review: "[Vista is] a slightly more secure version than XP SP2. There are good features, and there are good ideas, but they've been implemented badly. The old problems never go away: too many networking services enabled by default; too many owners running their boxes as admins and downloading every bit of malware they can get their hands on."

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Text Login

[David Nabbit]

BTW - Has anyone figured out a hack to force an old style text login? Step 1: Switch to OS X
Step 2: Go to System Preferences
Step 3: Go to Accounts
Step 4: Go to Login Options
Step 5: Next to "Display Login Window as:" click on the radio button for "Name and password"

(note: I'm currently on my iBook with Panther, so the wording might be slightly different for Tiger.)