Hey guys. Just wondering if you are aware of this and if you have been interviewed on this subject.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22103525&pgno=3
Hey guys. Just wondering if you are aware of this and if you have been interviewed on this subject.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22103525&pgno=3
Datagg,
Very interesting. But according to their super detection program, I am a dead duck!
I use Zone Alarm, Sygate, Avast and some of the others that their Detection System doesn’t detect.
I would think that Avast is not mentioned because Avast might have to request it be tested and added to the list.
This seems like another “bug” venture by Microsoft.
However, at least MS is trying to increase security.
I would say, MS is trying to increase paranoia and false alarms !!
And bug reports by the same time ;D
I agree with Le Doc. More Bug Reports for Microsoft!
I’m not sure what you guys are talking about.
avast fully supports XP SP2 (and of course, is being correctly detected by the new Windows Security Center) – for about 2 months now…
Yup! I have seen it with my own eyes.
VLK,
I suspected as much, but the article from MS did not reflect that Avast was detected. (Unless it was not a current article)
Has the Detection program been released yet?
Do you know if it will be an update or a download?
Datagg
It’s a small thing but it’s Vlk not Vik.
Let’s make Vlk happy.
Ahhhhhhhhhh…Damn old age gets to me.
My bad… ;D
Can we believe in it? Is it a MS article? I don’t think so…
Well, in Beta yes. Some users have it, test it and avast is detected.
Middle summer (in your Hemisphere ;D), I suppose.
I have heard it will be in september. But who knows.
The last I heard, and I’m probably way out of date, was sometime late July.
Hopefully they’ll hold off and work on it some more – I can see we’re headed for a repeat of SP1, patch after patch after patch ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
This I refered when said ‘Summer’
Updating never ends… You should say ‘enough’ for now, release it and, after that, continues
True, for most other products. But in the case of MS and Windows, everyone (exept Gates and MS, of course) seems to agree that the vast majority of their “updates” have been to fix problems that existed right from the start, not fix new problems or add improvements.
This is a terrible and sad truth…
Glad to hear Avast is already recognised by the new Windows system though. Wonder if they’ll set it up as a Critical Update with all sorts of incorporated fixes to other things which should have been thought of before, so that we have to download it or get some virus, or whether they’ll give us the choice.
Knowing Microsoft probably not.
With all this detection, and what appears to guard these programs, Im wondering just how important it is to have such programs as Process Guard now. Or if in fact they will collide somehow. Like Xp’s firewall, vs your own firewal. Im sure they will have somekind of shut down for it, yet what im understanding is that it is more difficult to do. Like windows auto updates, they are going to make it more difficult to elliminate, this all in hopes to force more updates for people. Yet i wonder how difficult it will be for those of us who do a more custom rig.
Amen, on all thats been mentioned. Also not to mention the fact that some of WINS security (critical) updates (patches) that we download to fix a particular problem actually have created new problems that were not there before the download.