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

Posted by timothy on from the it's-like-voltron dept.

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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  1. Re:No platform is 100 percent secure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More like Linux still doesn't have the market share to warrent spending significant time developing malware for it.

  2. Bitdefender sells security products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bitdefender sells security products. Can we get a number from somebody a little less biased, or perhaps somebody biased against microsoft? How about a consulting firm with a good reputation the prefers Linux, but grudgingly supports MS because they have to? Anyway, Bitdefender has an incentive for you to think Win8 is insecure. How are they defining malware? Stuff that says, "to install, please enter admin password"? If 15% of the "malware" comes with those instructions, it'll infect anything.