|
Symantec: Out of the Box, Vista Prone to Legacy Threats Posted on: 02/28/2007 07:45 PM Symantec Security Response has spent months throwing every hack but the kitchen sink at Microsoft's Vista operating system, and on Feb. 28 it released a series of papers that showed just how bloodied or victorious Vista remained. The result: "There are existing codes that can survive Vista without being modified? [certain] keyloggers, worms, Trojans, and spyware are able to survive," said Symantec Research Scientist Ollie Whitehouse in an interview with eWEEK. The current threat level of the Vista security-resistant malware is "relatively low," Whitehouse said, but he said that out of box, Vista already has several legacy threats. "It won't take much for [those] to evolve," he said. Read on at eWeek
Printed from Warp2Search.net (http://www.warp2search.net/contentteller/news_story/symantec_out_of_the_box_vista_prone_to_legacy_threats.html)
|