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Vista security still no match for social engineering
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Windows Vista is wide open to nearly 40 percent of the malware currently circulating, Microsoft has
admitted, following a report by Sophos.
Remarkably, with the new operating system just released to business, the software giant said in effect that there is nothing it can do about the threats in question — Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O — because they rely on social engineering to invade systems. The three threats together account for 39.7 percent of currently circulating malware, according to Sophos.
"Based on our initial investigation, Microsoft can confirm that these variants do not take advantage of a security vulnerability, rather they rely on social engineering to infect a user’s system," Microsoft said in a statement. Vista security still no match for social engineering
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