Article: Windows 8 Is The Most Vulnerable OS

From bleepingcomputer.com

Windows 8 is the most vulnerable Windows OS, you can thank Flash for that

Any comments?

 

Does it apply to W8.1?
Seems like there is a heap of confusion out there - reading the comments that are Posted.
Anyone using W8.1 been compromised yet? Neil.

 

Since Flash is also built-in in Win 8.1, it should also apply to it.

These vulnerabilities could be found any system running Flash, so Win 8 is not be blamed alone. Its a Flash thing.

To be on the safer side, use Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
(EMET) from Microsoft in conjunction with your anti virus. Besides Flash it also protects IE, Word, Excel, Firefox etc.

 

Steve Jobs was not too fond of Flash.

 

Neither am I. Nor of Java but.....

 

...you can't do much on the web without it.

 

I don't think this is a fair analysis. While true, Flash is integrated into Windows 8, that fact is, virtually every system with a previous version of Windows gets Flash installed, probably on the first day the computer is powered up.

The analysis should be Windows 7 with Flash installed compared to Window 8/8.1 with integrated Flash.

Arie is absolutely right - one of the main reasons Microsoft included Flash in W8/8.1 is so Windows Update can be used to keep it current. BY FAR, keeping our systems current is one of the most critical (and effective) methods of preventing malware infection.

 

EL CONJUNTO wrote:
"From bleepingcomputer.com Windows 8 is the most vulnerable Windows OS, you can thank Flash for that.
Any comments? "

I have several computers, none of them has Flash installed, and thats the way I'll keep them. A while ago, I did have Flash on a Win xp home computer, for a short period of time, because there was a certain Flash video on the web, that I wanted to view and then save. But removing Flash after that wasnt so easy. After using the uninstaller, the Flash was STILL on my computer, and fully functional!! I spent quite a while trying to get that off my computer, and I found a program called UnFlasplayer, (or something like that) that did the trick, and I finally got it removed.

 

I have win 8 pro on a tower unit. It was win 7 originally. I had minor issues when I first purchased it and called dell support. We argued about it being 32bit or 64bit, turns out it was a reworked machine converted and resold as brand new. like I said just minor problems until I installed win 8 pro and its been one thing after another and I cant get it to upgrade to 8.1, the window folks (as nice as they were) couldn't tell me what the error codes mean, so I still have win 8 pro. I can deal with that as long as I can use the computer, and have been. I also have a win 8.1 HP laptop, now this is my issue. I have been hacked and cant figure what to do. They took over the action center and a notification said I had issues with my K7 virus-malware program and gave me a link to purchase k7. Since then I have had two different programs placed on my desktop that directs me to "Systweak" and "Live PC Help" they both go to the same people. While I was searching the web to find out what the panther file was (because it was completely blue text) I come across this site and after reading through it I figured you guys seemed knowledgeable enough to help me. I followed the instructions downloading mbam on both machines but when I downloaded "dds" and I cant get it to run on my laptop, it says it is not meant to run in compatibility mode and I have turned it off a few times just to get dds to run. I really need some help, I only thought I was an intermediate now I feel like I'm a beginner. If I have emailed K7 and they sent me a K7 removal tool and some other K7 tool and kind of just blew me off. If I've posted in the wrong place or was too long winded I'm sorry.

 

I think it just more MS bashing - perhaps by those unwilling to give up XP. If these vulnerabilities were so...vulnerable, the world would be awash in infected W8 systems. But that is not happening.