Vista is most reliable version of Windows?

While writing the previous post I was listening to the Microsoft Channel Nine interview with Mark Russinovich, the founder of Wininternals who is now employed by Microsoft since they took over his company and incredibly useful website.

What struck me during the interview was the insistence of the interviewer that Vista is Microsoft's most secure operating system yet. In the first half of the interview he must have repeated it a dozen times.

To emphasise how secure Vista is, Mark did a good job of trashing the "non-existent" security in Windows 95 and 98. It's probably best to keep quiet about the mess Microsoft created by not following the rest of the industry and giving normal users limited restricted accounts in Windows 2000 and XP.

It's funny how they keep insisting how secure Vista is. I guess if you keep repeating it, it will make it even more secure.

Malicious Skype trojans

A friend of ours has been warning of the risks of SPIT, SPam over Internet Telephony, for a couple of years now so seeing the news of the latest Skype trojan doing the rounds caught my attention.

The interesting things about this little nasty uses the Skype contact list to spread. Which means our initial advice to restricting Skype chats to contacts won't do too much. It comes back to running the system as a limited user with an up to date virus checker.

Of course, not clicking on anything that says "click here" is a good idea too.