Re: New Microsoft Anti-Spyware Tool

From: TCS (The-Central-Scrutinizer_at_p.o.b.o.x.com)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:50:15 -0600

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begin On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:32:22 GMT, Nico Coesel <nico@puntnl.niks> wrote:
>TCS <The-Central-Scrutinizer@p.o.b.o.x.com> wrote:

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>>begin On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:45:16 -0500, Mark Jones <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>> Free DL (beta), free updates, Anti-Spyware network, cleans BHO's,
>>>more... it found things on my PC that SpyBot nor Pest Patrol found.
>>>Interesting technology, check it out:
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
>>
>>>-- "Perseverance, and perseverance alone, is omnipotent." MCJ 1998
>>
>>Now, if only microsoft would bring 60's technology to the desktop and
>>quit having users run as administrator by default.
>>
>>On my linux machine, even if I ran a web browser as insecure as internet
>>explorer, there's no way it could install anything on the system. The
>>web browser running in a user account simply hasn't the priviledges.

>Keep on dreaming. If a Linux user has access to the network, the user
>can run a piece of software, spyware or other malware. By starting
>this piece of software from an auto start configuration file (can be
>anything from .profile to a kde initialisation file) you have the same
>effect as you have under Windows. The weak link is the user, not the
>OS.

As a user, a .kde script can't modify the system. You really should
learn some technology that has come since the 60's. Pretty wonderfull stuff.

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