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From: "Carl Houseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:09
I must have been reading a different article. I didn't see any of this
blatant bias you mention. Sure, the guy only mentions the major brands of
competitive products. So what? Why should he be expected to enumerate
every possible competitive product?
Did you read any of the related articles linked from that one? The
underlying reason for the article and the complaint has merit. I wouldn't
fault McAfee for going on the record in this way. Yeah, the first four
paragraphs were a little heavy on self-congratulation, but when you read
past that, it's all meat and potatoes. And before you accuse *me* of
bias,
I regard McAfee and Symantec AV products in the same light - to be avoided
at all costs.
And it's called Patchguard, not Crashguard.
does not mention which products or under what circumstances
or programs besides malicious code which causes the crash.
The circumstances are clearly spelled out. It's called "hooking a kernel
API". The reasons for antivirus software doing that are clearly
explained.
It's not necessary for this guy to itemize every product that will be
affected by it.
As to the debate over Patchguard, it remains to be seen if that will be
effective at blocking malware. I would guess not, since it's said that
malware can bypass it. If anything, it will push malware to use rootkits
more often, and that's not a Good Thing, even though though they were
headed
that way anyway. What Microsoft needs to do next is concentrate on
"RootkitGuard".
I agree, I don't see the bias Marc mentions.
I came away with the conclusion that MS should provide a built-in means of
accomplishing the heuristical behavior detection that the 3rd parties have
been providing in prior OSes. Either that or they need to allow a 3rd party
solution to "examine" the API calls being made so as to continue to provide
this service.
Regards,
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Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL
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