Is Microsoft Windows 7 Safe?
When Microsoft released its latest operating system, Windows 7, it was perceived as the company’s most secure launch ever — the consummation of a nine-year “Trustworthy Computing” effort to sustain a product line that had been riddled with major security holes. Microsoft had years to enhance Windows XP, but the Conficker worm, which started spreading last year, is now thought to have infected more than 7 million Windows machines. And for every Windows bug that gets crushed, hackers appear to find new problems in the software that runs on top of Microsoft’s operating system such as Flash Player, QuickTime and Java. The chief technology officer with Immunity, a security company that spends a lot of time finding the new software bugs states that Windows 7 is definitely by far the most secure system Microsoft has launched. The one of the official of Microsoft revealed the statement in a recent interview that states that they had made great progress with respect to security around the core
