Microsoft confirmed that the viruses are old employments in Windows Vista

Microsoft Corporation confirmed information that some of the old viruses can parasitize recently presented at the operating system Windows Vista.

Last week the company Sophos promulgated November's ten most common malicious programs on the Internet. In the Sophos stressed that the postal Worms Stratio-Zip, Netsky and Bagle-P-Zip, occupying a dozen places, respectively, the first and third have no problem infect computers with Windows Vista.

According to ZDNet, Microsoft held in its own investigation and recently confirmed that the new operating system theoretically vulnerable to virus attacks, some of which date back to even 2004. In the Microsoft emphasized that it is not a hole in the security of Windows Vista, but on the means of social engineering. That is, those malicious programs can enter the computer only with the direct involvement of the user, for example, opened a dangerous message in a mail client third party manufacturer (built into Windows Vista client Windows Mail Client can automatically detect and block these malicious programs). Prohibit installation of third-party software as administrators can with the help of user access management (User Account Control, UAC).

Windows Vista, Microsoft on applications is the most secure software platform in our history. However, Sophos experts warn that one of the main goals of criminals soon will be the recently released browser, Internet Explorer 7, through which attackers will try to seize control over the victim's PC.