[RobRich]

Microsoft TechNET blogger Michael Kleef suggests user "complacency" is a key concern when analyzing the security of Windows Vista. His comments closely follow upon the release of a PC Tools report claiming Windows Vista to be less secure than Windows 2000.

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"The number of virus infections found by a virus vendor does not necessarily equal poor security," wrote Kleef in a blog post. "In many cases it equals poor user behavior. If I, despite all prompting and consent behavior, choose to go to a (probably dodgy) website, accept the ActiveX control prompts to download (probably dodgy) code and I actually choose to execute that code then I'm hosed."

Kleef claimed the number of infections was not purely the operating system's fault, but said that "in some cases it's the user and their lack of knowledge and their implicit 'it-won't-happen-to-me' complacency" that causes them to get infected.

Source: ZDNet News