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Vista security overview: too little too late
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Microsoft has gone out on a limb to promote Vista not merely as "the most secure version of Windows ever" (every recent 
version is marketed with that tired slogan), but for the first time as an adequately secure version of Windows. "We’ve got the message and we’ve done our homework", the company says. So let’s see if the reality lives up to the marketing hype. As Billg likes to point out, Windows is the platform on which 90 per cent of the computing industry builds, and this naturally means that it’s the platform on which 90 per cent of spyware, adware, virus, worm, and Trojan developers build.
That translates into 90 per cent of botnet zombies, 90 per cent of spam relays, 90 per cent of spyware hosts, and 90 per cent of worm propagators. In a nutshell, Windows is single-handedly responsible for turning the internet into the toxic shithole of malware that it is today. That’s not going to change any time soon, no matter how good Vista’s security might be, but a version of Windows with truly adequate security and privacy features would certainly be a step in the right direction. Vista security overview: too little too late | The Register
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