First Virus for WindoZe Vista ! :)

I had a strange urge not to click that link. Like I could catch a virus by reading an article. I think that's a reflex taken from the real world or something.

The controversy around the "Danom" MSH/Monad virus family and whether it is the first virus for Windows Vista or not is clearing up.

Last night Microsoft Security Response Center's Blog wrote - and I quote: "Monad will not be included in the final version of Windows Vista".

This is the first time Microsoft in any official way announced that Monad will not be in the release version of Windows Vista (until this there were just various rumors). So I mailed Stephen Toulouse who wrote the blog entry. And he confirmed: "The current plan of record is that it won't be in Windows Vista".

So that's it. The Danom viruses will not run in the default Windows Vista. They are not Windows Vista viruses.

Perfect, so every feature that has a capability to run a virus will be excluded from Vista. :)

Btw, without Monad how are they planning to run shell commands? Oh my! ::rolling eyes::