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Windows XP Is Pants Say PC Tools
By John F | May 11, 2008
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PC Tools recently conducted a security study of Microsoft’s operating systems and has admitted that XP is less secure than Vista [WTF!] and is even less secure than Windows 2000 [double WTF!].
The link for the findings is here. What amazes me is that XP is less secure than Windows 2000 when XP is supposed to be based on Windows 2000 architecture.
Although I suppose that there are more XP users than Vista and Win2000 users so this means that the spyware/malware scummers that program and distribute their filth know that they have to target XP the most.
Right, I’m off to roll back to Windows 2000…
Topics: Computer Security Usefulness |
May 16th, 2008 at 4:58 am
From the article you referenced:
“Greene essentially dismissed that number, or at least direct comparisons with XP or Vista. “It’s a matter of what people are using as desktop machines,” he said, adding that since ThreatFire targets consumers and Windows 2000 is rarely run as a desktop client outside of businesses, the unique-threat-per-1,000 doesn’t necessarily mean that the old OS was more secure.”
Gotta get it right, or nobody gets it at all. Of course MS will say Vista is better, they need to sell it!
May 16th, 2008 at 11:36 am
When you put it like that, you’re dead right. “Vista is the best, all is else is wasted binary code” say Microsoft, probably.