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Microsoft Working With Security Vendors
mikesd81 writes "The BBC is reporting on Microsoft's U-Turn. They've now given security vendors some of the information they want to make their products work with Microsoft's new operating system, Vista." From the article: "Earlier this month, security firm McAfee took out a full-page advert in the Financial Times to alert readers to its worries about the way Microsoft was handling the release of its new operating system. 'Microsoft seems to envision a world in which one giant company not only controls the systems that drive most computers around the world but also the security that protects those computers from viruses and other online threats,' the advert said. "
McAffee came about in the days of Msdos, when viruses would replace the boot sector, or attach themselves to the end of EXE and COM files. I am not sure that you can blame Microsoft for that one - there were before the days of encrypion and kernel protection, when any program had full access to memory, so there is not way you could stop it, without building a more secure os. And you can't start of building a more secure OS. (You need money, and ideas!)