According to foreign media reports, for the British Internet security firm Sophos arrived last week "Windows 7 is not safe," the conclusion that Microsoft has responded, saying that the conclusion is completely misleading.
Sophos said last week, Windows 7's User Account Control (hereinafter referred to as "UAC") security feature can only prevent 20% of live virus. Does not install any antivirus software, Windows 7's default system settings, Sophos use of 10 new UAC virus test results only lived two anti-virus.
In response, Microsoft has responded, Sophos said the test results can not explain the problem. This kind of informal tests are not convincing, has been accused of some of the media.
Microsoft said: "If in the system to run malicious code, it must be very bad result, Sophos's test can only illustrate this point. But the fact is, the user will not take the initiative to run such a malicious program. On the contrary, mainly through other malicious programs transmitted, such as Web pages or e-mail, and this threat should be done by anti-virus software to deal with. "