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Vista Flaw a minimal threat

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When I first heard this I was very concerned. However with the latest investigation and with the small install base this is not a big issue.

First point here is that there is a small percentage of businesses that have adopted Vista. With this limited deployment I am sure many f these businesses have the new OS in a beta or isolated environment for testing. Well at least I would. As for home users, well no issue here. No deployments here yet. I am leaving out the beta community however.

Secondly, conclusions so far show that a hacker must already have access to the vulnerable computer to execute an attack. Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for security research company F-Secure Corp., told the Associated Press that the risk is most likely if someone gets the computer's owner to install rogue software.

The bottom line is you couldn't use a vulnerability like this to write a worm or hack a Vista system remotely. It only has historical significance in that it's the first reported vulnerability that also affects Vista. It's a nonevent in other ways.

Microsoft responded on its security-response Web journal by saying it was still confident that "Windows Vista is our most secure platform to date."

The problem should seemingly be fixed soon, too, as Microsoft releases software patches on the second Tuesday of each month.

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