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Vista flaws are greatly exaggerated
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
In an analysis of a network of Trojan-infested PCs used for sending spam, security researcher Joe 
Stewart at SecureWorks in Atlanta found last month that 99.95 percent of the "bot-net" machines were running Windows, nearly half of which were Windows XP with Service Pack 2. This service pack was released in 2004 to address security issues but appears to have failed. All eyes are now on Windows Vista, which introduces another round of security-focused features. Will it prove more effective than XP with SP2?
Antivirus vendor Sophos appeared to answer that with a press release declaring that "Sophos experts note that on the launch date of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, three of the top 10 [malware threats] are capable of bypassing the operating system’s security defences and infecting users’ PCs." Vista flaws are greatly exaggerated - 08 Dec 2006 - IT Week
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