Microsoft’s Windows Vista is 37% more secure than its Windows XP ancestor, a security vendor claimed today, a rate it hinted was disappointing.
Using different data collection techniques, Microsoft has recently asserted that Vista is 60% more secure than XP.
For every 1,000 machines running Vista, security company PC Tools counted 639 unique threats over a six-month period, said Michael Greene, the firm’s vice president of product strategy, on Friday. “A threat is actually when malicious code has penetrated the machine,” Greene said. “The malware has to be on the machine to be counted by our ThreatFire community.”
Vista’s number is lower than the one for Windows XP. Users of PC Tool’s ThreatFire behavioral-based anti-malware software who run the nearly seven-year-old XP reported 1,021 unique threats per 1,000 machines in the same six-month period…
