Talk to the number of end users who have installed anti-virus software only to find that their perfectly working system is now crashing and running slower than usual. The end user doesn’t want a huge memory hogging, mega-bloated “web interface” rubbish. The user just wants to install it and be done. There is one thing I hate more than buggy applications and that is whining software vendors who don’t mind taking $400 off you for a piece of software but they whine when they might just have to re-invest a bit of that money back into the product to produce service packs and make their application compatible with new service pack releases.Īs for anti-virus software, could these companies out there realise that their software isn’t the focal point of the user. Btw, regarding support for application effected, there is NOTHING stopping third party vendors from getting the beta versions of the Windows XP SP2 and test their applications with it. I am not a Windows user, however, any move by Microsoft to bring better security forward is a good one. They just want to surf porn and send email, why interrupt the utopia with system administration? I know people that have been using PC’s for longer than I have that still don’t know how to download or install a setup.exe, you simply cannot expect these people to securely administer their operating systems. The types of people running Mandrake are not the same as the ones running default installs of XP Home. Other features include popup-blocking (with deny/allow list), window restrictions for popups (no more full screen or invisible popups), was more functionality with ICF, and execution protection preventing many types of buffer overruns (e.g non executable stack). These add-ons can also pose a security risk, because they can contain malicious and unknown code.” These add-ons significantly affect the reliability of Internet Explorer. “Windows Error Reporting data has shown that add-ons are a major cause of stability issues in Internet Explorer. This is a good idea since makes for some of the hardest spyware to locate, hyjackthis is currently the only app I know of that will do this. They included a tool to view, manage, and block internet explorer add-ons. I would just like to say to MS from that group of Enginers: “I TOLD YOU SO!!” And I would like to extend a special thanks to those geeks at MS for making my life just a little bit easier. It is a security vs functionality battle they obviously lost. I know what it’s like working for a large company and I am sure there when the UI groups wanted all this crap on by default there were groups of engineers at MS yelling “you gotta be F*ck’n kidding!”. Anyway, reading this document it looks like they are taking some valid steps in the right direction. If an end user is goiung to run a virus on the PC I admit the difficulty in preventing that, but there is no excuse for the number of services that are in listening state by default on Windows XP. They dropped the ball when failing to audit the remote attack surface of an OS for end users. I could have told you MSBlaster and Nachi were on the way within 5 minutes of installing WIndows 2000 for the first time. I remember laughing the first time I looked at the remote attack surface of windows 2000 and XP.
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