Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Vista not any more secure than XP

Well, CRN has done a test. Here is the bottom line:

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Based on the Test Center's findings, businesses that migrate their Windows PCs from XP to Vista will get a slightly more secure OS. But as the Finjan reports showed, Vista's security remains wafer thin.

In the end, both the Vista and the XP test notebooks were almost equally damaged by viruses, trojans and other malware. And because most of the Web sites in the test were able to exploit Vista's weaknesses, Internet users are just about equally vulnerable with both OSes.
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Click here for the full article.

Josh Phillips
ProVisionIT
www.provisionit.com

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