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Windows 7 Enterprise Security is better than OS X

Researchers ar Black Hat have said that they’ve found Windows 7′s Enterprise security to be better than that of Apple’s OS X operating system.

The problems for OS X seem to stem from user privileges.  While Windows 7 isn’t perfect, OS X seems to have more “soft spots” according to a report by Network World .  “OS X networks are significantly more vulnerable to network privilege escalation” according to the researchers, who went on to say that “almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.”

This news will come as a shock to some and a surprise to many.  While Apple still maintain that there is no malware threat on their desktop platform, despite the recent proliferation of the Mac Defender malware, OS X is still generally considered to be more secure than Windows 7 because of it’s Unix origins.

The fact that it’s user privileges and authentication, which is one of Unix’s strongest suits, will cause many great concern.

The researchers say that the latest version of OS X has gone some way to rectifying the problems with new sandboxing, that keeps programs isolated.

The research also looked at the vulnerability count for the two operating systems over the past few years.  In that time OS X has seen 1,151 vulnerabilities with Windows being not much higher, at 1,325.  While this is higher than the count for OS X it’s not significantly so.

On the upside, they also pointed out that Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, is better at sandboxing applications.  It has a dynamic signing feature which the device has to approve before an application can run.  This is opposed to OS X which will accept certificates that it is given.

Whatever the outcome of this it is further proof that Apple have let their game slip in recent years by being complacent about security in their operating systems, especially OS X.  The line that it’s just secure by design is no longer true as malware these days works on the user rather than the OS itself.  It will be interesting to see how, or even if, Apple respond.

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To uninstall this in windows XP, first click the “start” button and then go to the control panel and from there double click “Add/Remove Programs” menu. Look for the windows defender list and double click it. Confirm the removal of the defender from the system. Wait till the auto unistallation completes. Now restart the computer.

While trying to uninstall defender from the Windows may cause errors. In Windows 7, you can uninstall Windows Defender, by typing services.msc in Start menu search box. You will see in the services list. Right click the name and select ‘Properties’. In the ‘General’ tab of the window, select Disabled and click apply. Another option is to open the program through the Start menu. Go to the Tools > Administrator section. You can see the Use this program checkbox. Uncheck it and press the ‘Apply’ button to apply this change dell latitude e6120 battery , dell latitude e6220 battery .

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