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Microsoft Locking Out Anti-Virus Makers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the protecting-their-business dept.

twitter writes "Anti-virus makers have more to fear than stonewalling by Microsoft if a report by Agnitum, maker of Outpost Personal Firewall, is right about recent trusted computing changes. All the problems were summarized in a choice Register quote, 'In addressing the potential problem of not being able to install Outpost on new versions of Windows, we have discovered that it is possible to drill past the new security measures introduced by Microsoft - if we use the same techniques used by hackers.'"

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  1. Just the opposite by Vampyre_Dark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft has actually been bending over the backwards to help the anti-virus companies properly integrate their products into the new windows Vista. The problem comes from miscommunication. Billy is using his new speech-to-text program for all correspondece.

  2. cry me a river by r00t · · Score: 4, Funny

    Binary patching a kernel is just plain wrong. It's an unstable hack.

    You're supposed to patch the kernel source and recompile. Oh...