Sophos: Windows 7 is still not secure enough

Sophos: Windows 7 is still not secure enough

Sophos has stated the obvious in a blog post.

The company said that Windows 7 on its own cannot survive against malware attacks and users would have to rely on anti-virus products.

Sophos did some tests on a brand new installation of Windows 7 with no anti-virus program installed on it.

The tests were down with both User Access Control enabled and disabled.

This feature managed to save the system in few cases but failed in most.

Sophos said:

Lesson learned? You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7. Microsoft, in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report released yesterday, stated that “The infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than that of Windows XP SP3.”

But let’s not get complacent. Microsoft seems to be saying that Vista is the least ugly baby in its family. You can be sure the next report will highlight its even less ugly younger sibling, Windows 7.