Security Firm Trend Micro Claims Windows 7 is Less Secure Than Vista Out of the Box

December 13th, 2009 admin
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The headline sounds quite a bit more sensational than the content, but bear with me here folks. According to Raimund Genes, CTO of the security firm Trend Micro, the User Account Control changes in Windows 7 make it significantly less secure out of the box than Vista was. Genes claims Microsoft has made design choices that sacrifice security, primarily in the name of usability. “I was disappointed when I first used a Windows 7 machine that there was no warning that I had no anti-virus, unlike Vista,” Genes said. “There…


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