Vista's safety is suspected

Security experts have now questioned the Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' claim that " Vista is more secure than other operating systems ".

According to them, is Vista more secure than previous versions of Windows? Not to mention, there are many "old" operating systems that are far more secure than Windows.

Some other security experts believe that the security of a high or low operating system will depend a lot on how users use it, not just on the technology side.

There has also been evidence that hackers have begun to study and change their "appropriate" attack methods with changes in Windows Vista.

Is it safer?

In an interview with BBC News, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stated that Windows Vista is really secure, so users should quickly upgrade to this new operating system version.

For Vista, it took five years for Microsoft to develop and also delayed the launch of the operating system several times to fix problems that could make Vista more secure.

Meanwhile, hackers have begun targeting Vista and have conducted in-depth research to find weaknesses in this operating system.

" I'm sure people are focusing on Vista ," said Jeff Moss, organizer of the Defcon hacker Conference, for Reuters. " If you're a hacker and you've found a weakness of Vista, I'm sure you'll quickly spread malicious code to attack users ."

Code to exploit errors and information about vulnerabilities in Vista has also become a hot topic in discussion forums. There are even companies willing to pay to buy back that information. However, so far no one has won that money.

Researchers have also begun to publish research reports on a variety of weaknesses in Vista's security technology.

The obvious weakness

Vista is equipped with many security features such as anti-spyware or mechanisms that do not allow malicious software to be installed, do not allow interference in the operating system kernel .

But whether changes in Vista can make the operating system more secure than other operating systems is still a question that has a lot of controversy in the security world.

" Vista is safer than Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP ," said Mikko Hypponen, chief technology officer of security vendor F-Secure. " But basically, Vista is more secure than some other operating systems like FreeBSD, QNX, AS / 400 ."

" I can even say that Vista is sometimes less secure than other Microsoft operating systems. For example, the operating system used in Xbox 360. "

David Emm - senior technology consultant with Kaspersky Labs - thinks Microsoft has not only made Vista safer but also made the operating system easy to use. " The easier it is to use it, the more users face it, because people are the weakest link in the chain of security chains ."

For example, the User Account Control system in Vista requires users to authorize, so new software is installed to prevent malicious software. But it seems that it did not function properly. And users still "carefree" click agree without knowing what it is.

In general, the security issue in Vista is still a question that has not yet got the most accurate answer.

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