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Microsoft promises to ease security concerns | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: VNUNet | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has announced plans for security improvements in forthcoming products, to try to ease customer concerns about vulnerabilities in Windows. Gates says the company will make security its main investment priority this year, improving bug fix, threat isolation and authentication software, and releasing new anti-spyware and anti-phishing products. Despite this, Microsoft has issued 12 security bulletins, addressing 17 software vulnerabilities, in the last month alone. | ||
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| #1 By 2231 (68.100.199.62) at 2/24/2005 2:55:01 AM |
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Recent quote from Mark Minasi in an article about root kits ...
"... Installing malware is possible because most of us have full administrative powers on our computers. In the current Windows culture, users spend most of their time logged on as a local administrator. Until users either hand over administrative powers to IT staff or spend most of their time logged on as a local user with the ability to shift to administrative powers via the RunAs command, attackers will be able to use Trojans, root kits, and the like to install bad stuff on our systems. (Ask any UNIX/Linux expert whether it's a good idea to spend the whole day logged in as an administrator, and you'll get a look of horror.)" Microsoft MUST take the lead here and make non-admin accounts the default in Longhorn. They also must make it easy for mom & pop to be non-admins and vendors to support non-admin accounts. Anything else is just rearranging the deck chairs. |
| #2 By 7797 (63.76.44.6) at 2/24/2005 8:48:13 AM |
| I don't want better anti-spyware, anti-phishing, anti-virus tools from Microsoft. I already have tools that work. I'd rather Microsoft fix the root cause of the problems. |
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