Vista threatened by ActiveX bugs
Posted on November 5, 2008 by admin
Although computers running the Windows operating system Vista are significantly less likely to be infected with malicious code than those running Windows XP, the latest operating system continues to be threatened by Microsoft ActiveX technologies, according to a report by the company.
In the last biannual report, Microsoft says that PCs running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) were three times more likely to be infected with malware than computers running Windows Vista SP1. The last update to the Security Peter XP SP3, were two times more susceptible to infections.
According to Microsoft, in the first six months of the year Malitious Software Tool (MSRT) has removed malware on only three computers with Windows Vista SP1 to a thousand rolling. In the same period, MSRT found and removed the malicious code on 10 Windows XP SP2 systems and eight PCs XP SP3 to a thousand executions. Microsoft updateaza and automatically distributes the software tool Windows users every month by Patch Tuesday.
Vista has been attacked by bugs in the ActiveX controllers from third party companies.
Vulnerabilities in ActiveX, Microsoft technology used to create add-ins for Internet Explorer (IE), were 8 of 10 attacks against Vista in the first half of 2008.