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23

Sophos: Symantec and McAfee should have prepared better

Filed Under Security, Vista 

Sophos is recommending that system administrators ask their security vendors if they are capable of properly protecting them on the forthcoming 64-bit version of Vista, as arguments continue regarding access to Microsoft's operating system code (kernel). Sophos has reassured its customers that Sophos Anti-Virus will offer full protection against malware threats on Vista, and suggests that some security vendors may not have given sufficient thought to the new operating system when developing their products.

Anti-virus firms Symantec and McAfee have recently made high-profile complaints that they are being "locked out" of the Vista operating system kernel by Microsoft's PatchGuard prevention system. They argue that this is preventing them from continuing to develop pro-active protection against new malware, sometimes referred to as 'host intrusion prevention' or 'HIPS'. They claim this action is anti-competitive.

However, Sophos argues that its approach to HIPS technology has met with no problems on both the low-spec and high-spec versions of Windows Vista. In addition, Sophos claims that Microsoft has so far provided all the interfaces that Sophos needs for providing this form of protection.

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5 Responses to “Sophos: Symantec and McAfee should have prepared better”

  1. # Tarun on October 23rd, 2006 3:10 PM

    And MS told them to quit lying to the public.

  2. # fredvries on October 23rd, 2006 5:46 PM

    Hah, they would wouldn’t they? I was wondering already why only Symantec and McAfee were harassing Microsoft with expensive ads and no other AV-vendor would join the pack. So in the end it’s just lousy programming. What's new?

  3. # rridgely on October 24th, 2006 6:10 PM

    Hey Dj,
    I have a dial a fix question. I would have sent you an email but I don't have yours. :P

    Anyway I'm trying to help someone out who is having issues with their pc freezing. I told them to run dial a fix and they say they get error #4 and 5 when doing the last two parts of the registering section. Here is the topic at the forum maybe it wold help
    http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=7260&pid=53114&st=0&#entry53114

    Any suggestions on what could be keeping dialafix from registering those items?

    Thanks.

  4. # DjLizard on October 24th, 2006 7:30 PM

    My email address is at the bottom of every page (and is guessable, since I'm DjLizard and this is DjLizard.net).

    You sent him to a deprecated version of Dial-a-fix. I have submitted to FileForum a request for deletion - they did not honor my first request to change the description, so now I am requesting outright deletion so that this can't happen again.

    The current version of Dial-a-fix is the v0.60 series: http://wiki.DjLizard.net/Dial-a-fix_beta

    Without using a v0.60 branch, I can't tell what's wrong with his system (0.57.7 did not have an error reporting capability).

    Also, the problems he's having can't really be fixed by Dial-a-fix, it's more of a job for Driver Verifier (which is complicated and should not be attempted by an end-user). I suggest that he formats and reinstalls.

  5. # rridgely on October 24th, 2006 8:53 PM

    Ok, I didn't look to hard I guess. :D
    Thanks for the help, he said hes willing to wipe the drive clean so thats what I will suggest.

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