New Malware Report Hits Vista's Security Image

An anonymous reader recommends a Computerworld article on a new report from Australian security vendor PC Tools. The company released figures on malware detection by its ThreatFire product, and in its user base 27% of Vista machines were compromised by at least one instance of malware. From the article: "In total, Vista suffered 121,380 instances of malware from its 190,000 user base, a rate of malware detection per system [that] is proportionally lower than that of XP, which saw 1,319,144 malware infections from a user base of 1,297,828 machines, but it indicates a problem that is worse than Microsoft has been admitting to." Microsoft hasn't responded yet to this report.

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the problem is combining ...

[crazybit]

... a dumb user with a dumb OS.

Re:the problem is combining ...

[MrMr]

Score: 0 Flamebait, Ha, that'll teach you to piss off the MSerables during office hours.

100% of Vista machines affected with malware

[Wiseman1024]

Windows Vista is Defective by Design. It includes Digital Restrictions Malware designed to turn your computer into a mafiaa corporations' surveillance unit, taking control of your files, prohibiting you from performing certain operations on your own files, and prohibiting you from accessing and modifying your own kernel, even in memory.

Therefore, all machines running Vista area ffected with malware.