And this would have the effect of stopping this from being remotely wormed. Someone has to physically be at the computer to press the "Allow" button. Not perfect as it only stops one form of infection, but it's a fairly major one so I chalk it up as an improvement in security.
The article makes it sound like Microsoft handed out the DVDs and then this security researcher came back and presented a flaw. While that makes for some sensationalistic press, it isn't correct. This same presentation on bypassing Vista driver signing was given more than a week before at another security conference, SyScan
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And this would have the effect of stopping this from being remotely wormed. Someone has to physically be at the computer to press the "Allow" button. Not perfect as it only stops one form of infection, but it's a fairly major one so I chalk it up as an improvement in security.
http://www.syscan.org/program.html
Seriously, this stuff would be awesome for paintball armor.