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Testing The Defenses
CRN Test Center engineers put Windows XP head-to-head against Vista to see which provides greater security. Armed with two notebooks -- an HP Compaq 6515b notebook running Windows Vista Business 32-bit Edition with the 256-bit encryption version of Internet Explorer 7 (left) and an HP Compaq nc6400 running Windows XP with the 128-bit encryption version of Internet Explorer 6 -- Test Center engineers probed both OSes with some of the most dangerous exploits known today. To even the playing field, the two notebooks were stripped bare of all security software, with only the default security features and settings remaining. Read on to see how the two OSes performed and how they were tested. Related Article: Vista, XP Users Equally At Peril To Viruses |