vista will not need antivirus

[renegade600]

see this

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.

I highly doubt this.

[Rainbow32]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&h...hacked&spell=1

[Mr Bean]

That's like saying :-

"Beanie doesn't need Felinfoel"

Yeah right

[black mirror]

Originally Posted by Mr Bean

That's like saying :-

"Beanie doesn't need Felinfoel"

Yeah right

or BlackMirror doesnt need Lambrini

[Spider]

True there are new incorporations such as phishing-checking aboard the new Internet Explorer
and Vista itself has new security options such as popup warnings for any executable that start.

Jim Allchin's son surfin' VC-less isn't much of a risk with a router and an updated Windows
involved. If the weight of this super safety lay on Windows Defender (the old Giant antivirus)
then I would not refer to any of that as ground-breaking or any other type of super-protection.
It's just a virus checker in the end and I've already seen Vista Ultimate running Defender and
the Defender was bypassed and the Vista was infected.

The good thing about Vista security is that Vista is kind of lobbing everything at the system from
all directions. There are multiple included programs and program settings to cover all the aspects
of getting a good running system to stay that way due to inside or outside influence.

I especially like the "System Restore" available on the Vista boot CD menu. When all else fails, it's a beaut'.

I had read a recent article on future security needs and the statement was that present day
updateable-virus-software is not going to protect us from the way systems are being accessed.
Things like "User Account Control" (halts executables until approved) may seem a bit annoying
at first but the idea that everything is stopped until "human-approved" is more what we need
[involved] for the future.

In a perfect World
More viruses and spyware could be stopped if everyone on the Internet takes classes on
How to operate a computer system and keep it free of exploits
(or The Do[s] and Don't[s] of Clicking)

[zipulrich]

Truth is, his conversation was misconstrued. Here's his response on the Vista blog:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...-in-depth.aspx

[renegade600]

you also have to consider a 7 year old brat, I mean kid would not visit the high risk areas others would