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Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware
Hypertwist writes "Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich is lowering the security expectations, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans, and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system. Even in a standard user world, he stressed that malware can still read all the user's data; can still hide with user-mode rootkits; and can still control which applications (anti-virus scanners) the user can access. From the article: '"We'll see malware developing its own elevation techniques," Russinovich said. He demonstrated a social engineering attack scenario where a fake elevation prompt can be used to trick users into clicking "allow" to give elevated rights to a malicious file.'
I'm really quite surprised by this.
In similar news, despite a wide variety of new content, online pornography remains disproportionately popular.
"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
"He demonstrated a social engineering attack scenario where a fake elevation prompt can be used to trick users into clicking "allow" to give elevated rights to a malicious file.'"
Good thing geeks are anti-social.
Karma police, arrest this man. He talks in math. He buzzes like a fridge. He's like a detuned radio.
So you're telling me I shouldn't have installed these smilies? Here, let me try a typical smiley face. :-@*&^^^ NO CARRIER
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From the "No fucking shit, sherlock" file...
Malware writers will write malware for the latest OS? And they'll try and find ways around the blocks? And in the millions of lines of code, they'll find a weakness and succeed? Holy shit, I never would have guessed!!
Seriously, sometimes when I read Slashdot, a small part of my brain cries out in pain, and then is silent forever.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
In Russinovich, malware attacks Vista.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
malware tends to only be available for popular OS's! I am sure that Vista will remain safe from such attacks.
The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
Oh, that's easy: because it takes a lot longer to type " ... " than it takes to type " ... " into the <title> tag. (Though that's still not as long as it took me to type this comment.)
Well, to hack/infect/trojan a Vista system you first have to find one. Considering the high switchback rate to XP that's going to be harder than previously expected.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I'm guessing that Duke Nukem Forever is dependent on some unique feature of the WinFS filesystem...
FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
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