As Windows 7's market share passes 3.6%, up from 1.9% the day before launch, llManDrakell notes an experiment they did over at Sophos. They installed Windows 7 on a clean machine — with no anti-virus protection — with User Access Control in... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Tue, Nov 03 2009
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| 05 Nov 09 |
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Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses » digg Sophos recently tested Windows 7 against 10 in the wild viruses. The result? 8 of the 10 ran successfully on the newest version of Windows. Windows 7 may be the most secure Windows ever, but is that good enough? |
| 04 Nov 09 |
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Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses » the register (uk) User Account Control easily bypassed Out-of-the-box Windows 7 machines are still vulnerable to eight out of ten viruses, according to a test by security firm Sophos.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing |
| 16 Dec 08 |
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iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App » slashdot walterbyrd notes that new data from Gartner indicates that the successful launch of the iPhone 3G was enough to push iPhone market share over that of Windows Mobile devices — the entire range of them. And reader Spy Hunter writes: "Seadragon Mobile... |
| 07 Mar 09 |
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UAC Whitelist Hole In Windows 7 » slashdot David Gerard writes "Microsoft tried to make Vista secure with User Access Control (UAC). They relaxed it a bit in Windows 7 because it was such a pain in the backside. Unfortunately, one way they did this (the third way so far found around UAC in Windows... |
| 02 Nov 09 |
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Windows 7 busts the 3 per cent share barrier » the register (uk) And that's not counting copies not installed yet... Microsoft's kind of make or break Windows 7 launch pushed the OS to a stonking 3.48 per cent market share by the end of last month, figures from tracker firm Net Applications show.… |
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