Vista security(read ps)

Is vista really secure? Well thats the million dollar question.Though its for the first time after NT microsoft has designed something keeping security at center, the worldwide acceptance of windows is quite appealing for the attackers to work their brains out.As due to the "Law of Conservation of Bugs(see note)" it is entirely impossible to make any software completely secure because it is these bugs that are exploited to take control of victim machine.But the important point is finally world's greatest software company has taken security seriously and so we can except next windows (probably Windows 7 ) versions to be more and more secure.


Now lets get back to Vista.

• Many times while using XP sp2 we have seen security center in action. Its primary function in XP was to report about current status of firewalls , antivirus and all that. This passive security center is made active in Vista.

The first three functions are just like XP.
The notable addition is windows defender and its really cool because MS continuously updates the spyware definitions which are instantly made available through updates .
Security center also ensures that all internet settings are at recommend level.

• Now another important feature is UAC(User Account Control)

Though this gives more trouble, its importance can not be denied.Whenever you try to do anything that threatens security(e.g changing screen resolution) UAC asks for your permission.
Personally i think MS should have excluded day to day tasks from UAC. As most of us have heard the story of "The shepherd who cried wolf" after some time we just start allowing anything UAC asks our permission for(I have disabled UAC).

Next articles will dug deep into defender and discuss its strengths and weaknesses.

Note:
Law of conversion of Bugs: The law states that bugs can neither be created nor be destroyed they can only be converted from one form to another.
Number of bugs is directly proportional to the number of line in a program.

PS there was a mistake in title earlier that has been corrected.