Vista vs Viruses

Posted on February 15th, 2007 in Software Reviews by Bobola Akinola

Anything that is too good may not be all that you expect - Bobola Akinola
Windows Vista (codename Longhorn) is Microsoft’s new operating system. There are currently 7 versions of Vista.
In this article , i want to illustrate the new features in vista and why they are there.

There are some new features in vista that were not included in Other versions of windows .
They are
1. UAC (User account Control): this gives the users two options , Standard User and Administrator User.
If actions listed in Administrator mode are performed in standard mode then the user will be prompted to allow the action by entering the administrator password. This is actually not too useful because users will be frustrated with all the questions asked and will eventually disable the function or enter the admin password everytime without looking at what the warning says.

The other features are Patchguard which is designed to protect the kernel, The new IE7 features, ASLR (Address Space Layer Randomization), Network Access Protection.

Actually I think that what Microsoft is trying to do is to create an operating system which will not need an antivirus. What they dont know is that there is no fool-proof operating system.
These new features will not protect the OS totally but it will help enable the user to be confident of his/her security status.

My conclusion is that There is no super operating system.
I will continue this article next week.

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