“Malware writers faster in developing code than security industry, claims expert,” Rene Millman reports for ITPro.

Millman reports, “Malware writers appear to be much further along in developing malware for Vista than the security industry is in making products to protect the new operating system.”

Millman reports, “Speaking exclusively to IT PRO, Tim Eades, senior vice-president of sales at security company Sana Security said that 38 percent of malware is already Vista-compatible. ‘Malware writers have gone through the WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) list to make sure that their code works on new machines,’ he said. ‘They have managed to port code to Vista quicker than the security industry.’ The WHQL list defines hardware that is compatible with the Windows operating system.”

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