Microsoft blames Vista insecurity on third-party apps
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| Windows Vista by itself is "immune" to existing Windows malware,
| but third-party email applications could compromise the operating
| system's security, Microsoft's co-president for the platform and
| services division said in a blog posting.
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http://pctank.blogspot.com/2006/12/microsoft-blames-vista-insecurity-on.html
While not a verbatim quote, Allchin makes some strange statments sometimes..
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006120516224886
...In Monday's opening statement, Conlin read from a Jim Allchin memo, from
the DRI-Novell story. Here's part of what Allchin said about how to deal
with the competitive threat from Novell then:
"We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger....If you're going to
kill someone, there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and
angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of
time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
Related:
New zero-day vulnerability affects Vista
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| A new vulnerability exists in the way Windows handles certain hard
| error messages that may be locally exploited for the purpose of
| local privilege escalation. The vulnerability is exploited by
| calling Windows MessageBox API with certain parameters.
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http://www.it-observer.com/news/7020/new_zero_day_vulnerability_affects_vista/
Microsoft unlikely to lead anti-virus sector
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| Natalya Kaspersky, CEO of Internet security firm Kaspersky, says
| that Microsoft is unlikely to be the leader of the anti-virus
| sector, despite the security enhancements of Vista and its own
| anti-virus product.
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| In an article published by Kaspersky Lab - Security from
| Microsoft -- the door to a brave new world? - Kaspersky gives three
| reasons why the software giant will struggle to join the
| anti-virus sector.
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http://www.it-observer.com/news/7018/microsoft_unlikely_lead_anti_virus_sector/
Study: Symantec Best at Removing Rootkits; Microsoft Worst
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| The application that performed the poorest, according to
| Thompson, was Microsoft's Microsoft Windows Defender (Beta 2),w
| hich is being built into the Windows Vista operating system.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2051268,00.asp
Security Suite Smackdown, Part I
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| Eight of the biggest names in security go head to head in
| this round up of the best (and worst) of the apps that
| aim to keep you safe.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2031667,00.asp
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