New Developments From Microsoft Research

prostoalex writes "Information Week magazine runs a brief report from Microsoft Research, showcasing some of the new technologies the company's research division is working on. Among them — a rootkit that eliminates other rootkits, a firewall that blocks the traffic exploiting published vulnerabilities, a system for catching lost e-mail, a honeypot targeted at discovering zero-day exploits, and some anti-phishing applications."

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Re:rootkit wars

[jamstar7]

Let's face it, any real innovation by Microsoft in the last 15+ years has been strangled by their own Marketting department. Anything 'new' they came up with is either a return to the past (for instance, Vista separating the video routines from the kernel was the Way It Was Done in NT 3.5 & 4.0!), or something they stole or bought from somebody else. That's the problem with marketting-driven companies. It's all about the product. The marketting geeks made the programmers take out WinFS and a whole bunch of other stuff that would have actually helped Vista in favor of Yet Another GUI Facelift, things the techies had been planning on implementing for YEARS.

Word is, Microsoft has dumped over 7 billion into this turkey. Wonder how much of it was for writing stuff Marketting wouldn't let them use and code monkeying to plug up the gaping wounds when they were forced to tear out the new code...

Re:RootkitDetector Reloaded...

[Anonymous Coward]

Do they even know what a rootkit is?

Well, of course, MS knows. They have been selling and giving them away for years now.