Someone call McAffe a waaambulance.
McAffe is at it again.
I seriously wish someone from Microsoft would email me and explain to me why they would give in to these loser companies. Or the EU for that matter.
Microsoft made a product. These companies found some flaws in the product and made money selling fixes. Now they're complaining that Microsoft won't a) let them know how their making their new product b) let them break the security features of their new product, all so that they can sell more fixes.
You know what, if you can't figure out how to fix it on your own, tough nuggets. Your company deserves to lose all of its buisness. I don't see Trend Micro or Sophos having a problem. Their buisnesses deserve to wipe McAffe and Symantec from the market place.
Scott Field wrote on his Microsoft blog, "We have also been asked to provide a supported way for 'known good' vendors to continue hooking the kernel but prevent others from doing so. Unfortunately, there is no reliable mechanism for us to distinguish between 'known good' software and malicious software. Moreover, we cannot prevent a malicious software author from 'bundling' purportedly good software in an attempt to thwart the system. Even if we could include such a mechanism, it's unclear if we could use this mechanism to selectively allow kernel hooking in a manner that provides an acceptable trade off between performance and reliability and security."
Is there anything even remotely unreasonable about this? Anything at all?
Vista is MS's toy, if anyone doesn't like it, then they dont' have to use it, and they don't have to support it.
If this all wasn't rediculous enough, just ask yourself, do YOU trust every employee of McAffe and Symantec? Every single one of them that will have access to the Vista kernal api anyway?
I don't trust any of them. I have no faith in a buisness who's buisness model is whining about what they wished they had. That means another 10 years of spyware bullshit to the fault of the first rat to jump ship with the api knowledge.
That goes for the EU as well. Microsoft is not a monopoly anymore. OSX and Ubuntu-ish linuxes are viable competitors. If Microsoft is what people want to buy, its because either a) they prefer it or b) they DO NOT CARE. In either case, people still have the CHOICE of another operating system. If the EU doesn't like Vista, then MS should just not sell it there. If that isn't enough, it should pull support for Office 2007 from the EU. Just wait it out for 6 months. Let the buisness owners in the EU have a few unfriendly talks with the lawmakers. They'll see the light, I PROMISE YOU.
I seriously wish someone from Microsoft would email me and explain to me why they would give in to these loser companies. Or the EU for that matter.
Microsoft made a product. These companies found some flaws in the product and made money selling fixes. Now they're complaining that Microsoft won't a) let them know how their making their new product b) let them break the security features of their new product, all so that they can sell more fixes.
You know what, if you can't figure out how to fix it on your own, tough nuggets. Your company deserves to lose all of its buisness. I don't see Trend Micro or Sophos having a problem. Their buisnesses deserve to wipe McAffe and Symantec from the market place.
Scott Field wrote on his Microsoft blog, "We have also been asked to provide a supported way for 'known good' vendors to continue hooking the kernel but prevent others from doing so. Unfortunately, there is no reliable mechanism for us to distinguish between 'known good' software and malicious software. Moreover, we cannot prevent a malicious software author from 'bundling' purportedly good software in an attempt to thwart the system. Even if we could include such a mechanism, it's unclear if we could use this mechanism to selectively allow kernel hooking in a manner that provides an acceptable trade off between performance and reliability and security."
Is there anything even remotely unreasonable about this? Anything at all?
Vista is MS's toy, if anyone doesn't like it, then they dont' have to use it, and they don't have to support it.
If this all wasn't rediculous enough, just ask yourself, do YOU trust every employee of McAffe and Symantec? Every single one of them that will have access to the Vista kernal api anyway?
I don't trust any of them. I have no faith in a buisness who's buisness model is whining about what they wished they had. That means another 10 years of spyware bullshit to the fault of the first rat to jump ship with the api knowledge.
That goes for the EU as well. Microsoft is not a monopoly anymore. OSX and Ubuntu-ish linuxes are viable competitors. If Microsoft is what people want to buy, its because either a) they prefer it or b) they DO NOT CARE. In either case, people still have the CHOICE of another operating system. If the EU doesn't like Vista, then MS should just not sell it there. If that isn't enough, it should pull support for Office 2007 from the EU. Just wait it out for 6 months. Let the buisness owners in the EU have a few unfriendly talks with the lawmakers. They'll see the light, I PROMISE YOU.
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8:54 AM
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More food for thought from BetaNews
"For years, security vendors have insisted that Microsoft do something to secure the kernel. Now that it looks like they may actually be doing that (putting aside all doubts, for the moment, with regard to how long it holds up), competitors are insisting that they be taught how Microsoft is doing it, the argument goes, so they can follow suit. But giving PatchGuard an "API," if you will, would be contrary to the purpose of the device itself - like attaching an entryway to a sarcophagus.
Sophos' Ron O'Brien was willing to concede the following: "Both Symantec and McAfee, frankly, have a very large consumer customer base, which would potentially be at risk if Microsoft were to enter that market. So I look at that as being a kind of extenuating circumstance."
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