Microsoft™s security researcher believe that upcoming operating system, Windows 8 is a step forward in security and Windows 8 will be far better at protecting against malware than it’s predecessors.
Chris Valasek, a senior security
research scientist at development testing firm Coverity, began
examining the security features of Windows 8 last autumn, before the
consumer previews of the upcoming revamp of the new Microsoft OS came
out.
"There are always going to be vulnerabilities but you can make it difficult to leverage vulnerabilities to write exploits." One
major change between Windows 7 and 8 is the addition of more
exploit-mitigation technologies, however. Windows Memory Managers
(specifically the Windows Heap Manager and Windows Kernel Pool
Allocator) are designed to make it far harder for attackers to exploit
buffer-overflow vulnerabilities and the like to push malware onto
vulnerable systems.
The "security sandbox" for applications for Windows 8 will also be a great step forward. "These new Windows 8 Apps will be contained by a much more restrictive security sandbox, which is a mechanism to prevent programs from performing certain actions," Valasek explains.
"This new App Container
provides the operating system with a way to make more fine-grained
decisions on what actions certain applications can perform, instead of
relying on the more broad ‘Integrity Levels’ that debuted in Windows
Vista/7.
Windows 8 also comes with a
new version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's browser software. Internet
Explorer 10 will come with a mode that disables support for third-party
plug-ins such as Flash and Java.
So, Friends I recommend you all to go for Windows 8, than its previous versions which are more prone to Malware attacks.
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