On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:04:41 +0100 (CET), George Orwell
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>ZDNet.co.uk
>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9286362,00.htm
>
>Security company Kaspersky claims that Vista's User Account Control
>(UAC) http://************/kaspersky_rips , the system of user privileges
>that can be used to restrict users' administrative rights, will be so
>annoying that users will disable it.
>
>Speaking to ZDNet UK at the CeBIT 2007 show in Hanover Germany, Natalya
>Kaspersky http://************/natalya , the company's chief executive,
>said, "Windows Vista with UAC disabled will be less secure than XP SP2.
>There's a question mark if Vista security has improved, or has really
>dropped down."
>
>Kaspersky provides one of the scanning engines in ForeFront,
>Microsoft's business security product.
>
>Arno Edelmann, business security product manager for Microsoft, said
>that Kaspersky's claims were surprising. "We have a thriving community
>of partners, and Kasperky is one of our best partners," Edelmann told
>ZDNet UK. "I find their statements a little strange because they have
>one of the best insights into Microsoft security products."

D'oh! Arno doesn't seem to be too bright. Of course Kaspersky has one of
the best insights into Microsoft security products, and they just gave
honest facts about Vista. Perhaps it's the "honest" part of it that has M$
*****s stumped.

>Kaspersky also added her voice to Symantec and McAfee complaints that
>PatchGuard, designed to protect the Vista kernel, is hindering security
>companies' work.
>
>"PatchGuard doesn't allow legitimate security vendors to do what we
>used to do," said Kaspersky.
>
>Symantec has claimed that PatchGuard is hurting security vendors more
>than it was hurting malware writers. Bruce McCorkendale, a chief
>engineer at Symantec, said: "There are types of security policies and
>next-generation security products that can only work through some of
>the mechanisms that PatchGuard prohibits."
>
>Eugene Kaspersky, the company founder, said on Thursday that while
>vendors had to interact with Vista legitimately, hackers were under no
>such constraints.
>
>"Cybercriminals seem not to care about Vista licensing," said Eugene
>Kaspersky. "They don't need to follow regulations or be certified by
>Microsoft — antivirus vendors do."

Microsoft has purposefully made it difficult for third-party security
vendors to interface with Vista because M$ want's people to buy security
products from M$.