Windows 8 more malware resistant than 7?

[altrenda]

According to one company's test, Win 8 is more resistant to malware than Win 7.
Article from CNET

Neowin uses the same data showing the most effective AV's for 8 HERE

All MS has to do now is give in and add an option to use either the Home Screen or the Start Screen.

 

[SAG]

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

I still never let a computer leave my bench without (at the minimum) MSE and MBAM Pro installed and running. The cost of MBAM Pro is rolled into my service charge - non-negotiable.

 

[4ycr]

I am very surprised at that. I am just back from a Microsoft partner business briefing and they basicly said the under the hood 7 & 8 are almost identical.

 

[compnet]

I am very surprised at that. I am just back from a Microsoft partner business briefing and they basicly said the under the hood 7 & 8 are almost identical.

Just smartscreen should help a lot if all else is equal.

 

[mraikes]

According to one company's test, Win 8 is more resistant to malware than Win 7.
Article from CNET

Neowin uses the same data showing the most effective AV's for 8 HERE ... snipped...

In and of itself, it's not really more resistant except that Win 8 as an OS incorporates MSE (ok, Defender) which 7 does not.

Compare Win 8 with Windows 7 + MSE and it's pretty close to identical.

So let me summarize the surprising results documented in that article for those who don't have time to read the whole thing:

"An operating system that incorporates a basic antivirus of some kind will protect you from viruses better than one that does not."

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

In and of itself, it's not really more resistant except that Win 8 as an OS incorporates MSE (ok, Defender) which 7 does not.

Compare Win 8 with Windows 7 + MSE and it's pretty close to identical.

So let me summarize the surprising results documented in that article for those who don't have time to read the whole thing:

"An operating system that incorporates a basic antivirus of some kind will protect you from viruses better than one that does not."

However, they add the statement "Adding just about any third-party security suite makes it even safer, a new study finds"

..which shoots down your joke.

Not really enough data available yet with the current wave of rogues to see if "Win8 including Defender" equals...if not beats, "Windows 7 including MSE".

 

[mraikes]

However, they add the statement "Adding just about any third-party security suite makes it even safer, a new study finds"

..which shoots down your joke.

Not really enough data available yet with the current wave of rogues to see if "Win8 including Defender" equals...if not beats, "Windows 7 including MSE".

How does that shoot down my joke?

Are you surprised that Win 8 with built in MSE is more virus resistant than Win 7 with no protection? Or is it a revelation that even more protection in the form of third party security makes it even safer?

The article makes no claim that Win 8 is actually more secure than Win 7 with equivalent security add-ons.

The only info of substance from the article really has no substance at all . . .
Quote:

"Windows 8 comes with Windows Defender," AV-Test CEO Andreas Marx said in an e-mail requesting clarification on the scores. "[It's] under a different name and quite nicely integrated in Windows 8, but the 'Protection' results are not much better when you compare Windows Defender (on Win 8) with MSE (on Win XP, Vista or 7)," he said.

Marx added that because it catches "a bit more than 80 percent of the 'zero day' attacks," Windows 8 with Defender is better than no protection at all.

End quote.

So here's the steak separated from the sizzle and the strange excuse for Rosenblatt to spin a blog: "Windows 8 with Defender is better than no protection at all."

EDIT: Perhaps the bigger story is that Windows 8 with defender is (according to Marx) "not much better" than MSE on XP! I would have thought MS' super-modern OS would at least leave XP in the dust.