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Security Companies Tussle With MS Security Center
hey0you0guy writes, "The large security firms such as Symantec and McAfee want Microsoft to allow them to replace Microsoft's Windows Security Center. Microsoft is refusing these requests. 'By imposing the Windows Security Center on all Windows users, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at security,' Bruce McCorkendale, a chief engineer at Symantec, said in an interview. 'How do we trust that Microsoft knows what all the important things about security are to warn users about?' Given Microsoft's past, with vast piles of security flaws and patches, they should at least cooperate with these companies. A dispute still exists over PatchGuard, a security feature that Microsoft says is designed to guard core parts of the 64-bit version of Vista, but which critics say locks out helpful software from security rivals."
This is the very same thought I had...
Even if they only give the method to approved companies... What's to stop some nut job programmer for Mcafee or Symantec creating a piece fo code that only disables WSC and letting/allowing/or causing writers of malicous code that same ability... I doubt theyed be able to track such a thing back to a single programmer working for either company and I can imagine some large slices of change from places that want to write malicous code for such an ability...
Also wants there is a way to turn it off (without user intervention), then what stops someone from accidentally stumbling across it?
we are all invisible unless we choose otherwise