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Windows 7 Vulnerable to 8 of 10 Viruses
06 Nov, 2009, 3:03 pm IST | by
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With Windows 7 making the news since its launch, security firm Sophos decided to see how safe the new OS was and this is what they found. On October 22nd, SophosLabs loaded a full release copy of Windows 7 on a clean machine. They configured it to follow the system defaults for User Account Control (UAC) and did not load any anti-virus software. They used the next 10 unique malware samples that arrived in the SophosLabs feed to see how well the newer, more secure version of Windows and UAC held up. Despite Microsoft's claims that "the infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than that of Windows XP SP3", Windows 7 disappointed just like earlier versions of Windows. The only good thing was that out of the 10 malware samples that arrived, 2 would not operate correctly under Windows 7. User Account Control blocked only one malware sample. It's failure to block others points to the fact that the UAC's default configuration is not effective at protecting a PC from modern malware. Read the complete analysis here. |
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