Microsoft improvements in windows security?

why windows vista is more secure from windows 2000 sp4 or windows XP sp2?

what's the difference between those two versions and vista?

and if microsoft says that vista has better security than XP why we will
always find a malicious file on our pc?


(this question is not meant to offend anyone)

Since installing Vista Ultimate x64 over one year ago, I've only accumulated
three advertising cookies and one advertisement as reported by Spybot,
McAfee (while I was still x86), NOD32 and avast!
NOTE: I don't run any of these in Auto-protect mode.

Some would say this is UAC. I say hogwash since I merely click Continue
anytime it pops up.
This leaves the underlying structure, mostly IE7, my router's firewall, and
diligence on where I'm visiting at fault for the lack of "malicious"
software on my computer.

(I'd have to say I accumulated that much daily on my XP SP1 system.)

So, I'd have to give credit to IE7's updates and not Vista at this point.
And, IE7 was made available to each of the systems you referenced. Of
course, try turning the Protected Mode of IE7 off in Vista and you'll
constantly be reminded that Vista is trying to protect you by having you
turn it back on.


"pavilion_alex" <pavilionalex@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Give me a break. 'Always'? I have not found one piece of malware on multiple
computers running Vista in a year or so, so you are just plain wrong that it
will 'Always' be found. Since you can't get basic facts right no one should
pay you any attention. But I will say, the improvement in Vista and this
directly contradicts your 'always finding malware' crap, is that so far I
have not seen any evidence that Vista can ever get malware unless the user
causes it (by clicking OK to warnings they shouldn't have, or by downloading
the malware directly from the internet and running it). No other consumer
OS can make that claim, and it is due to the firewall and protected mode IE,
which other browsers and OS's lack. Despite this fact, the myth that
windows is insecure will never die because of tools like you that repeat
**** they read from other tools when none of you knows wtf you're talking
about.

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