This is the blog the article talks about (without actually linking to it, as far as I can see): http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/19/window s-vista-and-protection-from-malware.aspx >>(Though to be fair to the author, Tom Sanders, he seems to be paraphrasing the Microsoft guy in charge of security. Yeah, that's better...)
No, he's misrepresenting what Jim Allchin, the author of the blog entry says. What Allchin says is that while the malware in the study might technically execute on Vista it wouldn't, as a practical matter, get through to the point of executing because any decent mail client would block executable attachments, even in ZIP files, etc. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
