Vista recently has been loosened?

I have Vista Ultimate.
Recently I have noticed that my Weborook Antispyware has been catching more
things, including one virus today, and I wonder if it is because I now have
att email (I used to have MSN dialup before) or if it is due to the new
updates made to it after Windows 7 was released, which might have loosened
its security or added new ways for spyware or malware to get in?
Please advise.

Thanks, Mr. Arnold.

"Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
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> Octavio wrote:
>> I have Vista Ultimate.
>> Recently I have noticed that my Weborook Antispyware has been catching
>> more things, including one virus today, and I wonder if it is because I
>> now have att email (I used to have MSN dialup before) or if it is due to
>> the new updates made to it after Windows 7 was released, which might have
>> loosened its security or added new ways for spyware or malware to get in?
>
> Nothing is bulletproof, and no, nothing has been loosened on Vista.
>
> However, the easiest ways for malware to get to your machine is going to
> dubious Web sites pointing and clicking and opening email from unknown
> sources.
>
> In other words, if malware is going to reach the machine, then the user
> had involvement in it.
>
> So don't point and click on everything under the Sun when surfing the
> Internet and don't open emails from unknown sources, which goes a long way
> in the preventing malware from reaching the machine.

Have you been doing anything different in your browsing? Going t
untrusted sites? Opening email attachments without knowing who they cam
from? Main causes for virus spreading right there

--
CrucialHoax

"Octavio" <> wrote in message
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>I have Vista Ultimate.
> Recently I have noticed that my Weborook Antispyware has been catching
> more things, including one virus today, and I wonder if it is because
> I now have att email (I used to have MSN dialup before) or if it is
> due to the new updates made to it after Windows 7 was released, which
> might have loosened its security or added new ways for spyware or
> malware to get in?
> Please advise.

Without knowing exactly what malware was found (and where), we will have
no way of knowing how it got in. A typical way to get in is to trick the
user into allowing it (either through the web browser, chat client, or
e-mail program). I would more easily believe that an update to the
antimalware is responsible for increased detections - or that you have
been getting more exposure than before (which couild be related to a new
e-mail address).