“Microsoft’s Vista may be vulnerable to at least three pieces of widespread malware, two of which date back to 2004 , according to security vendor Sophos,” Tom Espiner reports for ZDNet UK. “At least three well-known Internet worms — labelled Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O by Sophos — are able to execute on the OS, according Sophos.”
“These worms comprise 39.7 percent of all malware currently in circulation, according to the security vendor. The MyDoom and Netsky variants were first detected back in 2004,” Espiner reports.
Espiner reports, “These are among the first flaws found in the finalised version of Vista. The Vista kernel was hacked by a Polish security researcher at the Black Hat security conference this year, using virtualisation technologies. Security company Symantec also reported flaws in the Vista kernel in August.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “dogfriend” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: On. The. First. Day. Of. Release.
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pierce:
Take all the time you want to prepare a reply, you’ll need it.
Ned:
“P.S. I like Zune Tang too.”
What a coincidence, pigs like to wallow in shit, too. Happy Holidays, porky.
punkinhead:
You’re mistake is assuming that Windows and OS X are equally susceptible to malware and/or are identical in the number and frequency of inherent vulnerabilities. Until you can provide some objective evidence that these conditions are true, you cannot legitimately make the comparison you did.
Hello Maczealot…. Sorry, I was not clear. I am in NO WAY saying Windows and Macs OS are comparable other than they are a UI. Everything else is different.
The point I was trying to make is that Apple does not get viruses and ….. let’s say tomorrow…. a 100 new ones sprung up…. it still would not be 100,000.
Zune Tang,
I really hope you were joking. If not, I just read the most ignorant collection of paragraphs I have ever seen.
Do you agree with Steve Ballmer’s comment: Linux “uses our intellectual property”? If so, you two have a lot in common………..
Ricardo
I read a comparison in MacAddict some years back between XP and OS X. One of the interesting points brought up during this debate over which was better was the fact that Aqua (the GUI in OS X) sounded much less frightening when followed by -tic than does Luna (XP’s GUI). I wonder if with Aero they aren’t trying to make up for being such clueless asshats. (The guy seriously asked if aquatic was a word.)
MDW: fiscal. Too bad it wasn’t fecal. I could’ve had so much fun with that. Hell, I will anyway. Fecal matter is what monkeys like Ballmer throw when there’s a strike in the chair factory.