Windows Vista and protection from malware

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

Mobile — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:59:56 GMT

well jimall you have shared a very vital info with us! i appreciate it.

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

jryanitpro — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:09:01 GMT

I find it truly amazing that so many Windows haters flock to converse about evil Microsoft.

I wonder how all the MAC heads know what goes on behind the scenes for 5 years. Talk about drink the koolaid. Steve Jobs is not the messiah and Bill Gates did not steel anything thing from Apple. Xerox was developing ideas, guess what the same way Microsoft developers develop good ideas.

Guess what! Steve Jobs did not invent the GUI. And if you really want to get technical he stole Steve Woz's PC ideas and continued to get rich from them.

Keep up the good work MSFT and Jim. I have nothing but the utmost admiration for what you have brought to the market and to life in general.

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

oliv — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:48:53 GMT

The bottom line is that Vista and Microsoft products are too complicated in general ( from a user and development prospective ). The other thing is that people most of the time click OK on dialog boxes without taking the time to read them. You guys made lots of progress ( specially with the 64-bit version ) but stay humble because some big vulns could hit Vista this year.

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

Michael_Moor — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:09:22 GMT

Good to know that Vistas security is beefed up compared to XP.

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re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

dlevine@colby-sawyer.edu — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:36:48 GMT

What would be nice would be to hear a little more candid information about Defender. It's a little vague-looking as far as anti-spyware programs go ... Is it related to the earlier CounterSpy offshoot beta item that we saw a year or so ago? It seems to work nicely in concert with ESET's NOD32 v 2.7 on my Vista Business notebook with 759M RAM and a Centrino 1.6G processor. Updates- how often do they happen? Last one I saw was about 3M in size. That's kinda big- what's in there? The spyware threat is a tricky beast, where does it look to be going nowadays, Jim? Thanks for this blog!

La sécurité informatique pour les adolescents (et les autres)

WebLog de Stéphane PAPP [MSFT] — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:30:28 GMT

Nos amis suisses ont développé un site en français sur l’utilisation d’ordinateurs connectés à Internet.

Windows Vista and protection from malware

The Security Wizard — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:12:39 GMT

On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

MacOSX — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:49:58 GMT

windows vista is nothing more than a copy of the Mac OS! how can you not see that!!! widgets, gadgets????? like thats not obvious at all. also windows calendar and ical no similarities there either! oh and instant search and spotlight. the only difference there is the placement of the menu! instead of being in the upper right its in the lower left. seriously you guys why cant you EVER come up with something original!? this is just like the time bill gates stole the mac OS and made windows 3.1

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

Nick White — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:28:08 GMT

Hey klevinson: My understanding is that the answer is no, the actual contents of a .zip file are not marked via metadata, although that’s a really intriguing feature.

I'm going to pass your feedback over to the IE team, however -- thanks for the suggestion.

Baking up some FUD

InfoWorld Tech Watch — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:53:46 GMT

Big batches of Vista FUD. Hot out of the oven.

Jim Allchin on Windows Vista and protection from malware

Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:19:06 GMT

Jim Allchins answer to the Sophos November report on Vista... Very interessting! http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/19/windows-vista-and-protection-from-malware.aspx

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

DeviateX — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:26:07 GMT

"It's not a question of whether or not e-mail applications will run the executables, it's *what* will happen when those executables have been run."

Well for a start processes like these viruses would by default run in process virtualisation mode - meaning unable to access the real filesystem and unable to access the real registry.

re: Windows Vista and protection from malware

war59312 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:41:44 GMT

"It's not a question of whether or not e-mail applications will run the executables, it's *what* will happen when those executables have been run. What flaws in Windows are these executables attacking? Jim, that was pure spin." 100% Correct!

These damn spyware/virus should not have any effect in the first place! They should not be able to do a damn thing to hurt my PC. Jim is talking about workarounds basically and behavior of users, not security of Vista!

Jim Allchin responds to Windows Vista and the improved protection from malware

Harry Waldron - My IT Forums Blog — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:06:21 GMT

Jim Allchin provided an EXCELLENT response to Windows Vista and the improved protection from malware

Jim Allchin responds to Windows Vista and the improved protection from malware

Harry Waldron - Microsoft MVP Blog — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:05:47 GMT

Jim Allchin provided an EXCELLENT response to Windows Vista and the improved protection from malware