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Vista passes one security test
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Does the multi-layered security protection in Windows Vista work? As I pointed out yesterday, we 
won’t have a definitive answer to that question until months after Vista is officially released. But one current exploit offers reason to be encouraged.
Security experts are buzzing over a zero day exploit in Internet Explorer that allows an attacker to plant spyware on your computer if you visit a webpage that contains the exploit code, which takes advantage of a vulnerability in the VML Rendering engine. There are workarounds, but so far no official patch is available from Microsoft.
But what happens if you’re running Internet Explorer 7 on [tag]Windows Vista[/tag]? To see for myself, I logged on as a member of the Administrators group and used IE7 to visit a test site that hosts a harmless demonstration of the exploit code (courtesy of fellow ZDNet blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes). [tag]Security[/tag] » Vista passes one security test | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
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