Symantec: Out of the Box, Vista Prone to Legacy Threats
Posted by: [NT] on: 02/28/2007 07:45 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 1431 views
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
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
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The_GURU Unregistered |
#66060 Posted on: 02/28/2007 08:27 PM
This just in: Symantec prone to just as many threats and further degrades vista performance while leaving the OS completely open to viruses and intrusions. |
