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Microsoft partner: Vista less secure than XP
Tom Espiner  ZDNet UK
Published: 16 Mar 2007 16:09 GMT

Security company Kaspersky claims that Vista's User Account Control
(UAC), the system of user privileges that can be used to restrict
users' administrative rights, will be so annoying that users will
disable it.

Natalya Kaspersky, the company's chief executive, said that without
UAC, Vista will be less secure than Windows XP SP2. "Windows Vista
with UAC disabled will be less secure than XP SP2," said Kaspersky,
speaking to ZDNet UK at the CeBIT 2007 show in Hanover. "There's a
question mark if Vista security has improved, or has really dropped
down."

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