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Symantec: Out of the Box, Vista Prone to Legacy Threats | |
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| Time: 16:12 EST/21:12 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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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. he 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. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 2/28/2007 4:52:19 PM |
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"All told, about 2,000 malicious code samples, extracted from Symantec's virus library, were thrown at Vista in Symantec's testing.
The anti-virus vendor found that 3 percent of backdoors could execute and survive a system restart without any code change. 4 percent of keyloggers successfully survived system restart, while 4 percent of mass mailers, 2 percent of Trojans, 2 percent of spyware and 2 percent of adware did. No kernel-based rootkits were able to install themselves, however, thanks to Vista's default limiting of application privilege." GREAT JOB Vista team! |
| #2 By 54556 (67.131.75.3) at 2/28/2007 5:10:05 PM |
| That might work in the educational system, where security breaches do not significanty matter, but it most other areas of business the problem is that it only takes one getting through... |
| #3 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 2/28/2007 6:13:54 PM |
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First they have to get on the system. If they do, then 96-98% of them won't run. Then they have to get by Windows Defender and an anti-virus (if you are running it).
That makes Vista waaaayyyy more secure than XP. Sure Microsoft should work on the other 2-4%. But this is one hell of a start. |
| #4 By 655 (165.125.144.17) at 2/28/2007 6:56:04 PM |
| This from a company who's AV says that Yahoo Mail is a virus... |
| #5 By 61 (72.64.142.151) at 3/1/2007 8:38:47 AM |
| Also, what are these malware actually able to do in a standard user account? |
| #6 By 8556 (12.207.97.148) at 3/1/2007 8:46:04 AM |
| Considering Symantec's record lately, one can conclude that Vista is doing quite well thank you. Virus and spyware files can be removed (not effectively with Symantec programs) without a reinstall. Rootkits are the big threat. If they pose no threat, than there is no severe security issue with Vista at this time. |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 3/1/2007 8:52:33 AM |
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Don't pat MS on the back just yet. Vista has only been out for a short time now. They just now cracked the XBox hypervisor, so I'm confident we will yet see major Vista exploits. It's just a matter of time. Seems to me that Vista letting 17% of 2000 viruses have their way with your system is par for the course with MS.
GREAT JOB Vista Team! |
| #8 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 3/1/2007 11:12:41 AM |
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17%????
coffeegirl, you don't add up percentages to get a total when each of those 2% or 3% are on a subset of the 2000. Idiot. |
| #9 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 3/1/2007 12:21:40 PM |
| #8: I've decided to try MS' (and your) "Big Lie" strategy, where if I repeat a lie often enough, hopefully one day someone might believe me. I'll be repeating that "Vista lets 17% of malware though" mantra for the next 3 years, no matter how hard you try to correct me. |
| #10 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 3/1/2007 12:27:11 PM |
| coffeegirl, the only way you could ever surprise me is by telling the truth. I haven't been surprised yet by any of your 950 lies (posts). |
| #11 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 3/1/2007 1:44:41 PM |
| #10: Why are you wasting time here when you should be trying in vain to secure Vista? After all, 17% of malware easily passes through and owns it. |
| #12 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 3/1/2007 3:04:25 PM |
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#9 "where if I repeat a lie often enough, hopefully one day someone might believe me. I'll be repeating that "Vista lets 17% of malware though" mantra for the next 3 years"
I would suggest that you be banned for admitting you lied, and admitting you plan to keep lying for 3 years. No site should allow that. |
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