“During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system’s new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed.” Full Story Here.
And then a few days later, having given his remarks some thought, changed his remarks to reflect what he REALLY meant. 🙂
Full Story Here.
Now, since none of us are PR people for Microsoft, I personally would recommend using a anti-virus program with Vista. Though the new operating system may be more be secure than XP, I am confident the bad guys will find ways around the new built-in security features of Vista.
By the time that Vista is released to the public on January 30, 2007, all of the major anti-virus and anti-spyware companies should have their software compatible for use with Vista. And Microsoft will also be tauting it’s own brand of protection, Windows Live OneCare. Details are available here.
No matter which software brand you choose, please make sure you keep it updated.
[tags]security, Windows , Vista, anti-virus, Live , OneCare [/tags]
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