Microsoft built 7 from the ground up to be a secure computing environment and retained the key security features that helped protect Vista, such as Kernel Patch Protection, Data Execution Prevention, Address Space Layout Randomization, and Mandatory Integrity Levels, but Windows Vista and Windows XP are equally at risk to viruses and exploits and overall Vista brings only marginal security advantages over XP. Net gain, zero.

Australian news sites are reporting that Integral Energy, the company that supplies energy throughout New South Wales and Queensland, has suffered through a W32.Virut.CF virus outbreak. The company had to disinfect all 1000 of their desktops. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the company’s anti-virus software hadn’t been updated since at least February. Luckily for the Aussies, the power grid’s servers run on Sun Solaris.

I just read a horrendous article on a wannabe news site called “The Hollywood Reporter” where the author, Paul Bond, devastatingly butchered definitions and skipped any attempt at providing even a miniscule speck of detail from the report he sourced.  It basically looked like he strung together a bunch of …