__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 01:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Stephen Fairchild
> <somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:04:36 +0100
> <ZaqdnU5n36zuz4XYRVnyvQ@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> 900 million US dollars will be spent promoting Vista.
>>
>> The new OS is the central theme of the new campaign. They
>> are promoting the monopoly.
>
> And what should they promote, Linux? Their main competitor? :-)
>
> I can't fault them solely for that; one hopes, of course, that
> the customer, being fed up with malware, spyware, adware, trojanware,
> mailware, spamware, pornware, and stupidityware, will switch.
>
> It won't stop the inflow of junk immediately, but it might
> quiet it down to a dull roar. ;-) In any event Microsoft
> has already confused itself -- in Win95, for instance, they
> proclaimed that Win95 was totally revolutionary and that
> DOS was no more. Andrew Schullman torched that notion,
> although he had no problem with Win95 sitting on top of
> DOS, just Microsoft's spin thereon that DOS was gone.
>
> (Assuming I'm reading him correctly.)
>
> And now Vista touts itself as the most secure Windows offering ever
> innovated. I'll believe it when I see it.
Page title:
Microsoft: Vista Most Secure OS Ever (BetaNews)
http://www.techmeme.com/060615/p61
We shall believe it when we see it indeed.
Black Hat Takes Vista to Task
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| She demonstrated two potential attack vectors. One could allow unsigned
| code to be loaded into the Vista kernel. The second vector involved
| taking advantage of AMD's Pacific Hardware Virtualization to inject a
| new form of super malware that Rutkowska claimed to be undetectable.
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http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3624861
Symantec highlights Windows Vista user vulnerabilities
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| Symantec has shed more light on potential vulnerabilities in Windows
| Vista that could circumvent new security measures and leave users
| vulnerable to attack.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/02/symantec_windows_vista_security/
Symantec continues Vista bug hunt
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| After poking around the Windows Vista networking stack, Symantec
| researchers have tried out privilege-escalation attacks on an early
| version of the Windows XP successor.
|
| "We discovered a number of implementation flaws that continued to allow
| a full machine compromise to occur," Matthew Conover, principal
| security researcher at Symantec, wrote in the report titled "Attacks
| against Windows Vista's Security Model." The report was made available
| to Symantec customers last week and is scheduled for public release
| sometime before Vista ships, a Symantec representative said Monday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6097976.html
Symantec Finds Flaws In Vista's Network Stack
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| Researchers with Symantec's advanced threat team poked through
| Vista's new network stack in several recent builds of the
| still-under-construction operating system, and found several bugs
| -- some of which have been fixed, including a few in Monday's
| release -- as well as broader evidence that the rewrite of the
| networking code could easily lead to problems.
|
| [...]
|
| Among Newsham's and Hoagland's conclusions: "The amount of new
| code present in Windows Vista provides many opportunities for
| new defects."
|
| "It's true that some of the things we found were 'low-hanging
| fruit,' and that some are getting fixed in later builds,"
| said Friedrichs. "But that begs the question of what else
| is in there?"
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/190700049;jsessionid=MWLALDT21M10GQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN
Symantec Says Windows Vista Will be Less Secure than XP
,----[ Snippet ]
| Symantec said earlier last week that there were no viruses for Apple's
| OS X.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3389
Symantec sees an Achilles' heel in Vista
,----[ Quote ]
| Some of Microsoft's efforts to make Windows Vista its most stable and
| secure operating system ever could cause instability and new security
| flaws, according to a Symantec report.
|
| [...]
|
| "Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and
| replaced it with freshly written code, complete with new corner cases
| and defects," the researchers wrote in the report, scheduled for
| publication Tuesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6095119.html
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