Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 23:10 UTC, submitted by Governa
Malware writers appear to be much further along in developing malware for Vista than the security industry is in making products to protect the new operating system. Speaking exclusively to IT PRO, Tim Eades, senior vice-president of sales at security company Sana Security said that 38 per cent of malware is already Vista-compatible. "Malware writers have gone through the WHQL list to make sure that their code works on new machines," he said. "They have managed to port code to Vista quicker than the security industry."
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RE[4]: I think the bigger question...
by kaiwai on Tue 23rd Jan 2007 04:48
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RE[5]: I think the bigger question...
by SReilly on Tue 23rd Jan 2007 15:00
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I wouldn't call it ignorance. What the big security vendors where bitchen' about has more to do with MS not releasing the specs to the API. MS is known for either charging for the information or flat out suppressing it.
How can you expect a company to tailor it's products to a system if you don't have the information pertaining to that system?
I do agree that their PR sounded like a bunch of winging children having a hissy fit.
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2005-11-10
Right an API that does not let the security product have access to some of the areas of the OS that the bad guys can get to. Typical!
This is typical, as fast as MS makes products, hackers, crackers and the like, kill Windows before it even gets off the starting block!