Vista Less Secure Than XP?

March 19, 2007 by Kiltak |

According to Kaspersky CEO, Natalya Kaspersky, Vista’s User Account Control feature is so restrictive and annoying that most people turn it off without a second thought, effectively making Microsoft’s newest OS less secure then Windows XP.

Natalya Kaspersky, the company’s chief executive, said that without UAC, Vista will be less secure than Windows XP SP2. “There’s a question mark if Vista security has improved, or has really dropped down,” she said to our sister site ZDNet UK at the CeBIT show in Hanover last week.

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