Windows Vista may not need antivirus

[drhayden1]

Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin is confident enough in the security of their new operating system, Windows Vista, that he says it may not even require antivirus in certain situations. Vista features many new security features, including an improved firewall, an all-in-one security suite (Windows Defender), and other features such as Kernel PatchGuard.

Allchin talked about two new security components which give parents control over what their children can and cannot do on the OS. Parental Controls allows parents to monitor/manage their child's privileges, which include web restrictions, time limits, blocking games, blocking specific programs, and activity reports.

The second feature is Address Space [Layout] Randomization. It helps to fend off malicious attacks by rendering system kernel object code in memory.

Allchin says he is happy with the current security level of Vista. He said: "Windows Vista is something that will have issues in security, because the bar is being raised over time. But in my opinion, it is the most secure system that's available, and it's certainly the most secure system that we've shipped.

http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4894

What-No Avast- No Vista Then

[bob3160]

Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin is confident enough in the security of their new operating system, Windows Vista, that he says it may not even require antivirus

He does have that option on his own computer as long as he allows me my choices on mine. 

[mouniernetwork]

Yes I do agree that his beliefs do not seem realistic I will too keep avast 
I guess that Mr.Allchin won't be buying Avast 
Nice picture drhayden1 (do you mind if I put it as my personal picture for the forum ?
Thanks

Al968

[drhayden1]

Al968...no problem...go ahead

[mouniernetwork]

Thanks 

Al968

[drhayden1]

you have to resize it and make it smaller.....too large by the forum rules

[mouniernetwork]

Yeah, I'm resizing it right now 

Al968

[mouniernetwork]

Is this good ??
I don't know the forum rule 

Thanks

Al968

[drhayden1]

that's fine....have a good one my friend

[Maeng]

Windows Vista may not need any other antivirus but Windows OneCare.

[drhayden1]

think i'll stick with avast!
In performance tests conducted by AV-Test.org, OneCare displayed some weaknesses. First, it failed to detect 14 out of 1690 file viruses on the WildList, a published list of common malware; since these viruses are publicly known, you should expect your security software to score 100 percent here. Also, among the ten security suites we looked at, OneCare received the worst score in our heuristics tests, which suggests that the program has a hard time detecting malware that it can't recognize through signature files. That said, Windows Defender is meant to be able to block an unknown piece of malware solely based on the way the file interacts with the PC. We did not test this capability, and AV-Test has no data on it.
even though the one tested is the windows xp one...not the vista one

http://www.av-test.org/

[DavidR]

If he is so confident that Vista won't/may not need an anti-virus, why are MS spending buckets of money developing one-care.

However his comment contains an important condition and that is "it may not even require antivirus in certain situations."

Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin is confident enough in the security of their new operating system, Windows Vista, that he says it may not even require antivirus in certain situations.

[bob3160]

I think the condition he's talking about is called "Shutdown phase" 

[DavidR]

Like when the virus shuts down Vista

[igor]

You know, Vista won't need an antivirus... and 640KB ought to be enough for anyone