Symantec: Vista Security Better, Not Perfect

This is an interesting report on Symantec's recently released critique of the security of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. Symantec has some bad and, significantly, some good things to say about the new OS. The security vendor was complimentary about the User Access Control (UAC) unit, which lets users know if software has made changes to how the PC is operating…
The story offers a long list of security improvements in Vista that were pioneered in the open source community. On the negative side, Vista is vulnerable to many of the problems that plagued earlier OSs, Symantec says. One thing that can't be changed is that the user still will be the biggest vulnerability. The piece links to the report…

Link: http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1272670.php/Symantec_reports_on_Vista_security

 

I used to like Symantec. But their Internet Security 2007 is so totally frelled that I'll never have another program from them and take what they say as a "consider the source". They're just trying to make money by saying MS has a faulty product (as if we all don't already know that) and we can make it better with another faulty product.