Microsoft Blames Users for Vista Infections
It's all your fault. The dustup started last week when security-software vendor PC Tools claimed that, based on its research, Microsoft's Vista OS (operating system) is far less secure than Windows 2000. According to PC Tools, over the past six months Vista has suffered 639 unique threats, whereas Windows 2000 has suffered only 586. "Ironically, the new operating system has been hailed by Microsoft as the most secure version of Windows to date," said Simon Clausen, PC Tools' CEO. Microsoft wasn't going to let that comment go down undisputed and now claims that users are responsible for executing malicious code on their machines — at least according to TechNet blogger and Microsoft evangelist Michael Kleef, who insists that the number of infections found by PC Tools is an indication of poor user behavior. Read all about it at ZDNet.co.uk.