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Defender, shown in Figure 1-1, to recognize and squash the newest breeds
of spyware.
The other parts of Vista’s security regime aren’t as simple, unfortunately. See,
PCs recognize programs as mere strings of numbers, and they can’t tell a
good string — a word processor, for example — from a bad string, such as a
virus. To solve the identification problem, Vista simply dumps the decision
onto
your shoulders: Whenever a particularly powerful program tries to run
on your PC, Vista states, “Windows needs your permission to run this pro-
gram.” Then it leaves you with two choices: Allow or Cancel.
To ease you through this admittedly difficult new responsibility, I cover
Vista’s new security features in Chapter 10.
And although Windows Defender keeps you covered from spyware, Vista
doesn’t include a free antivirus program. Instead, Microsoft invites you to
subscribe to its new Live OneCare antivirus program (
www.windowsonecare.
com
) for $49 dollars a year.
New Internet Explorer version
Vista’s new Internet Explorer 7 (which I cover in Chapter 8) lets you surf the
Web more easily and securely with the following new features:
Figure 1-1:
Windows
Vista comes
with
Windows
Defender, a
free spy-
ware eradi-
cator that
Microsoft
automati-
cally
updates to
recognize
the latest
breeds of
spyware.
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