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.

Comments

Windows is basically a wrong architecture

[freedom_india]

Windows 98, XP, and now Vista all have security loopholes one way or the other.
The vaunted UAC on Vista is useless.
Blaming the user for running as Administrator and exposing loopholes is like blaming the car driver for driving with the windows down.
Yeah, the wind can be heavy when driving at 100mph but that is not the reason for having a burn when driving a Pinto.
This is a good test case and lesson for wrong software architecture.
By Design Windows is flawed. Blaming the construction is like blaming the poor builders of Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Vista was done from ground up ripping out all old code but still has all problems in addition to UAC, BECAUSE Microsoft thinks Security is an add-on.
Mac OS X thinks security is part of OS and hence Administrator is different from root.

One should not need UAC to install software, and the registry concept should be thrown out.
Why the fcuk should a software write to a registry? It was originally meant for Windows only and should have been locked out instead of allowing every joker to write to it.

It will be great if Windows adopted Linux [kernel] as a base and bolted WINE as a backward way to run Windows Apps and Games.
Imagine the muscle Microsoft could bring if it adopted Linux Kernel for Windows. MSDN, TechNet, etc.,
I bet that would be the day Apple would realize the game was up.