Susuto

This so typical of Windows fans. Supermanred has made a legitimate point that I’m sure most Digg readers are aware of - If a vulnerability exists then it’s only a matter of time before it is exploited.

Combine this with the fact that every post on Digg regarding UAC had most people suggesting the easiest way to deal with it was to “Turn it off” and I think it’s pretty obvious that the security of many Vista systems is less than ideal. Does that mean Vista can’t be secure? No(although currently the vulnerability highlighted at Black Hat doesn’t seem to have simple solution), but just like fitting a $5,000 alarm system to your car is useless if you never turn it on, Vista’s UAC isn’t doing much for a lot of people that disabled it rather than wait out the first few days of responding to the prompts.

So in ‘real world’ scenarios, on average I would suggest that the average Vista system is much more vulnerable than the equivalent OSX or Linux system. Microsoft can claim whatever they want, but if you can’t design a secure system that users don’t turn off first chance they get, you’re pretty much wasting your time & money on developing security at all!