Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Sep 2006 23:06 UTC
Anti-malware company Symantec has accused Microsoft of withholding key information about its upcoming Vista OS, in an attempt to gain an unfair advantage in the security market. Symantec claimed this week that Microsoft is refusing to hand over the APIs for Windows Defender, its anti-spyware product which will be included in Vista. Without the APIs, Symantec claims that it isn't able to ensure that its own security products are compatible with Vista. Microsoft, though, insisted on Wednesday afternoon that the APIs are now available.
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2005-07-06
I hope that everyone had learned the lesson once SP2 was released and secured things so much...
The latest MS exploit for which there's only a workaround works even if you have SP2 and all other updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/925444.mspx
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/753044
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78793
exploit:http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk/modules/exploits/windows...
remedie:http://support.microsoft.com/KB/240797
But obviously not, people are still paranoid !
Rightfully so!
Long live ActiveX (not).
Edited 2006-09-28 12:02