Symantec states the obvious
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ALTHOUGH Microsoft is touting its super soar away Vista as the most secure ever, a security outfit is claiming that it is just creating newer and more spectacular flaws.
Symantec, which has been playing with the beta software, says it is
less stable and secure, at least for now.
In a security report into Vista, Symantec said that Vole has removed shedloads of good, tried and tested code and replaced it with new stuff. This means that it has bugs and defects in the short term.
While we would have thought this obvious, Symantec said it found several security bugs in Vista already, and there will be more in the future.
The report said that Symantec was not saying that Vista was going to be inherently insecure when it is released, but people should be aware of the ramifications of a "virgin network stack".
It says that Vista will be the first Windows version to support IP6, but some of this functionality could expose PCs which would be otherwise be snug and secure behind a firewall. More
at news.com.
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