Kaspersky: Windows Vista Firewall Is Full of Leaks - Users need third-party
protection
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| In Kaspersky's perspective, leak tests used to evaluate Vista's firewall
| point to the holes in Microsoft's latest operating system, holes that
| recommend the implementation of third-party security solutions. Grebennikov
| predicted that even with the added mitigations in Vista, such as User Account
| Control, Internet Explorer Protect Mode, and PatchGuard, the operating system
| is still vulnerable in its default configuration.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kaspersky-Windows-Vista-Firewall-Is-Full-of-Leaks-74871.shtml
Malware honeypots wait for '08
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| Traditional honeypots have proven useful for tracking widespread computer
| viruses and allowing AV companies to produce the signature files needed to
| protect machines against infection, but those targets are ill-suited to
| provide the level of real-time intelligence needed to protect against today's
| fast-moving customized threats, said Ryan Barnett, the WASC project's leader.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/28/Malware-honeypots-wait-for-08_1.html
Windows security just keeps getting worse.
Related:
The NSA 0wnz popular firewalls and 'secure' email services
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| CRYPTOME reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has remote
| administrative access to several of the most popular Windows PC firewalls,
| and that it has also taken control of a number of supposedly "secure " email
| services within the past few months.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/nsa-0wnz-popular-firewalls
Microsoft Vista's Firewall Improved Security?
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| I read an article by Grant Buckler of CDN title "Microsoft's hype machine
| has been at it again." The article questioned the efficacy of the
| Microsoft's Vista firewall.
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http://howtomarketyourstuff.com/tech-news/has-microsoft-vistas-firewall-improved-security.html
Windows Vista's Firewall offers false sense of security
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| Knowing that Windows Vista's firewall is capable of outbound
| blocking, but that it wrongfully defaults to let all programs
| access the Internet when it should let none, we were looking
| for an intuitive way to correct the problem. After going into
| Windows Vista's Control Panel, the link that said "Allow a
| program through Windows Firewall" made the most sense to us.
| As a side note, we were logged in with administrator
| privileges during this test.
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http://content.zdnet.com/2346-10741_22-53425-1.html
Dear Windows Vista Firewall...
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| When I ask you (repeatedly, and on multiple occasions) to turn off,
| why do you insist on re-activating yourself at random? Please go away.
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http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/dear-windows-vista-firewall/
Windows XP firewall attack?
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| Word is out about an attack that could let ill-intended people
| disable the firewall on Windows XP computers.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6131289.html?part=rss&tag=6131289&subj=news
Does antivirus have a future?
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| Peter Gutmann, a researcher at the University of Auckland who presented the
| results of a study of the commercial market for malware at August's Defcon,
| estimates that a good virus programmer can make as much as $200,000 a year
| (here, a 660KB PDF). Alan Cox, an open-source security researcher, points out
| some additional possibilities. One is malware designed to sit under today's
| virtual machines. A proof-of-concept paper proposing such an attack, called
| Subvirt (PDF), appeared last year, written by three researchers from
| Microsoft and two from the University of Michigan. A presentation at last
| year's Black Hat security conference from Joanna Rutkowska, a researcher at
| Coseinc, a Singapore-based security company, covered a much leaner attack she
| called Blue Pill, which targets the virtualisation built into Windows Vista
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| and into current processors from both AMD and Intel.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.spam
Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld 'Fight Club'
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| The results: Only three of the antivirus tools caught and blocked all 25
| viruses thrown at them. One tool caught fewer than 10 percent.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=131246&WT.svl=news1_1
Symantec security products less than secure
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| Secunia rates the flaw "highly critical," the second-highest category in its
| five-tier rating system.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/09/norton_security_bugs/
Is an antivirus gap looming?
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| The failure of antivirus companies to adapt to the dramatic malware
| appearance rates in 2007 tells us there's time for a change and there's room
| for a new class of tools. "AV is dead" is the battle cry of a new industry
| analyst report. Antivirus companies may not be going the way of the dodo, but
| to many customers, the concept of antivirus as the last line of defense has
| been thrown out the window. It's time for a better approach, one that can
| keep up and really defend networks.
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http://news.com.com/2010-7348_3-6195322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Predicting the demise of antivirus apps
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| "It's the beginning of the end for antivirus," says Robin Bloor, partner
| at consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, who adds he began his
| "antivirus is dead" campaign a year ago and feels even more strongly
| about it today. "I'm going to keep beating this drum. The approach
| antivirus vendors take is completely wrong. The criminals working to
| release these viruses against computer users are testing against
| antivirus software. They know what works and how to create variants."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/0047A206FF40A92ECC2572C3000FD867
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