Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months

An anonymous reader writes "Now that Windows 8 is on sale and has already been purchased by millions, expect very close scrutiny of Microsoft's latest and greatest security features. 0-day vulnerabilities are already being claimed, but what about the malware that's already out there? When tested against the top threats, Windows 8 is immune to 85 percent of them, and gets infected by 15 percent, according to tests run by BitDefender."

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Banana Defeats 100% of Current Malware

[Eightbitgnosis]

Why, not a single malware application can be installed on a banana! They too are immune.

Therefore bananas are now the most secure OS

Re:Banana Defeats 100% of Current Malware

[Sabalon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bunchy_top_virus

Re:So, ... some built in security?

[Anonymous Coward]

I understand not reading TFA, but did you even read the title?

Re:In other news

[Gaygirlie]

The malware will work if you run Wine.

I actually have tried that. A lot of the malware that runs fine on Windows crashed or just didn't work properly under Wine. Does that mean Wine is broken, or that the devs haven't broken it enough yet? I can't decide!

Re:In other news

[mrclisdue]

I copied bash to my Win8 boxen, ran

# rm -rf /

and now Win8 doesn't boot.

Thanks for the perfect solution.

cheers,

Re:No platform is 100 percent secure?

[Farmer Tim]

That's OK, it's 15% backwards compatible.

Re:No platform is 100 percent secure?

[crutchy]

my desktop is full of bomb icons so that it is very risky for a virus to infect it without tripping over one of the bombs and stubbing its toe