Microsoft Windows Vista is not as secure as what Microsoft claims. According to a report in New York Times on Christmas day, a number of flaws have been discovered on the brand new OS.
On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description (in Russian) of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user’s privileges on all of the company’s recent operating systems, including Vista. The flaw affects csrss.exe, which is the main executable for the Microsoft Client/Server Runtime Server.
Furthermore, computer security company Determina notified Microsoft on Dec. 20 of five more vulnerabilities it had identified — four affecting Vista and earlier versions of Windows, and one affecting Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail server.