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Vista Security — Too Little Too Late

Posted by kdawson on from the five-years-work dept.

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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  1. Vista Bashing For Nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will there be no end to the endless Vista bashing from Slashdot?

    You'd almost think they'd have an agenda in badmouthing Vista and promoting Linux.

    Or wait, Microsoft is also one of the biggest sponsors of this site. I guess they have no problem loathing MS and taking their money.

  2. Text Login by David+Nabbit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.)
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