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bedlam123 · 03-08-2007

Okay, here we go, Microsoft and Symantec are engaged in a war of comparative secruity marketing. Symantec started it when it released a group of research papers that contained praise for security advances in Vista, but also many reports of weaknesses.

Microsoft responded by saying they did not dispute any of the factual claims by Symantec, instead they questioned what exactly is a security issue and what is not? (Guess they could have saved a lot of time and money just by asking some of us.)

An interesting issue is that of the User Access Control: Vista users have to deal with those obnoxious little dialog boxes that usually go away before too long as your usage patterns are established.

Symantec demonstrated that a less-privileged program, that could potentially be malware, coul use elevated privileges with the assistance of a high-privileged application running on the same desktop. ---Wait for it, wait for it----a security engineer at Microsoft is quoted as saying it was not designed to stop malware, it was only supposed to make you stop and think before running programs that might be dangerous.

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bedlam123 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Somewhere in between Posts: 797	Symantec and Microsoft are arguing Okay, here we go, Microsoft and Symantec are engaged in a war of comparative secruity marketing. Symantec started it when it released a group of research papers that contained praise for security advances in Vista, but also many reports of weaknesses. Microsoft responded by saying they did not dispute any of the factual claims by Symantec, instead they questioned what exactly is a security issue and what is not? (Guess they could have saved a lot of time and money just by asking some of us.) An interesting issue is that of the User Access Control: Vista users have to deal with those obnoxious little dialog boxes that usually go away before too long as your usage patterns are established. Symantec demonstrated that a less-privileged program, that could potentially be malware, coul use elevated privileges with the assistance of a high-privileged application running on the same desktop. ---Wait for it, wait for it----a security engineer at Microsoft is quoted as saying it was not designed to stop malware, it was only supposed to make you stop and think before running programs that might be dangerous.