Symantec and Microsoft are arguing

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.

turvas · 03-09-2007

This is so stupid. I'm even not gonna say how stupid. Just stupid. Remind me never to buy something from Microsoft, unless it has a free full version of some good antivirus program with it (how bout something from symantec?)

And remind me not to update to Vista in during a period of 12 months after release. During that time they ought to work out the major bugs (hopefully).

And does anyone happen to have info on this: Does vista allow your computer to be part of multiple workgroups at the same time? I'm dieing for such opprotunity.

*unleash* · 03-10-2007

It's pretty stupid indeed turvas,

if microsoft would be smart, they would haven't said anything about it....then nobody would know. Now whit this "war" the rumour is spreading very fast, offcourse. So microsoft did some pretty stupid PR work, symantec...well they worked there commercial out fine didn't they.

"Buy symantec to secure your new windows vista, because without the mallware could get the most of you!!"

And there name is all over the net....