vista is most secure os?

Not quite, the built in security of Unix and Linux based systems are far tighter than those of a default windows installation. So something on an automated level would have a harder time breaching a mac or linux box.

Though the exaggerated sense of security of a mac user does leave them vulnerable to phishing scams and such, and in some cases may blindly provide their username/password when a malicious program asks for it. But to date nothing on an automated self-propagating level to the destructive level of stuff written for windows has been seen on a mac yet.

In the end over half of the infections or security breaches could have been prevented had the end user used some common sense.

 

haha, not possible. Windows Vista isn't open source thus years behind any other operating system in terms of bugs and security. Linux distro's are far more stable and secure than any windows OS around.

Mac is just based off of unix in which is open source. They are far more better than Windows, and have some pretty unique and crazy ideas, therefore being successful .


Microsoft will never be secure until they go open source or calibrate with another company, both options will likely bankrupt them (if that isn't going to happen already).

 

Mac OSX has been certified Unix just over a year now and can now be called Unix instead of just "based on".

 

Microsoft OS's are so insecure they remind me of a piece of Swiss cheese...loaded with holes

 

Basically it is the platform of Windows 7 so I guess it would be secured but still, It's much more safer installing another security software for more protection.

 

The most secure we would consider is LINUX and Vista is not secure from ma point...and everyone knows that..!

Thanks

 

Vista is more secure than XP but it run slowly

 

Vista happens to be more secured when compared to plain XP not SP3.
Vista UAC gives additional security feature, but the fact UAC can be broken easily

 

The right statement would be Vista is a people-friendly operating system thats about as secure as it can get. It is not guaranteed to be that secure, but is often the target of maliciousness simply because it is very widespread.

 

There is no secure os. All OS systems have holes in them. If you want a os without any holes, then the end less possibilities of using an os would be limited.

 

I thaught OSX was the "Most Secure" OS? Havnt used it on my iMac forever but never once had a threat.

 

OSX is Unix and far, far more secure than Windows could ever hope to be. All *nixes are.

 

Oh god, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bump the thread, I'm new here and I didn't know it was 2 yrs old lol!

 

hi there

NO Windows OS is secure unless the user takes the appropriate security messures and maintains these constantly.

Thats why there are updates all the time.

As a test, go online with Vista with NO AV, spyware / malware (not included with Vista) or firewall protection and see how you get on.

Take you about 8 seconds to get infected.

Regards

 

It's a common misconception any operating system is safer than another. When you put somebody in control of a system, 99% of the time it's their fault the system gets owned.

A secure system depends on who's maintaining it.

What's more secure, a fully patched Windows Vista machine or a Debian box running OpenSSH v3.6?

Trust me, i speak from experience. The problem is almost always between the Keyboard and the Chair.

 

That's a nice thing to say but not true in itself. It's far more difficult to break into any *nix system compared to Windows. Even a careful Windows user is bound to get infected and no Windows user would dare run without an anti-virus program (and some run more than one). However, many of us *nix users don't bother. Not just because there are only two known exploits in the last 10 years (both are now dead) but because of the difficulty for these exploits to get into the system in the first place.

Now someone will pop in here and talk about some Linux kernel vulnerability recently discovered but they won't know that the exploit can't possibly execute (and they won't be able to tell you why either but they read about on the internet so it must be true).

So some operating systems are more secure than others, it's just that Windows is the least secure of them all. And while a careless user can get even a *nix computer infected, it's highly unlikely, and the same careless user will very likely get his Windows computer infected.

 

The newer OS from MS are bound to be more secure as compared to previous OS.

 

nope Linux is secure than any other

 

My be vista secure.... but i use XP sp 2 with firewalll and its fine

 

Well i guess yes so, but havent tried the windows 7..Windows 7 may be the best os.