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Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware

Posted by kdawson on from the UAC-be-damned dept.

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.'

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  1. Actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm really quite surprised by this.

  2. Vista malware by psaunders · · Score: 5, Funny

    Russinovich Says, Expect Vista Malware Old news. Vista has been available for months now.
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  3. pfffft.. by Jose · · Score: 5, Funny

    malware tends to only be available for popular OS's! I am sure that Vista will remain safe from such attacks.

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