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| Thread ID: 62380 | 2005-10-05 12:36:00 | Latest of Vista's New Security Features | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 393634 | 2005-10-05 12:36:00 | reviews.zdnet.co.uk MS has finally built in a unix-type permission model, or at least a variant of it. With this simple and small step, malware will disappear. This is enough rason to upgrade to Vista by itself if users cannot stomach MacOSX, Linux or BSD. MS is now also including loadable modules. It looks as if their firewall still sucks though. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 393635 | 2005-10-05 20:11:00 | Man some of the article you find to waste threads with here are terrible. With this simple and small step, malware will disappear. Anyone that believes that should probably still be using an abacus. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 393636 | 2005-10-05 21:35:00 | The more I read about Vista the more determined I am to stick with XP. | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 393637 | 2005-10-05 22:22:00 | oooold news | Edward (31) | ||
| 393638 | 2005-10-05 22:59:00 | Man some of the article you find to waste threads with here are terrible. As always, you appear on queue like a bad smell. If you are not going to read the cited article, then maybe you should stick dumping on Creighton or something sad like that. RTFA about the finer-grained controls that Vista will be implementing. Anyone that believes that should probably still be using an abacus. Well, maybe not disappear - their firewall is still a weak point. But thetypes of malware that so so easily infects past and current versions of Windows will not be able to infect Vista. Here endeth the lesson. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 393639 | 2005-10-05 23:12:00 | Me thinks the lesson will start when Vista hits the market and people start getting their machines infected all over again.... | Metla (12) | ||
| 393640 | 2005-10-06 01:29:00 | As always, you appear on queue like a bad smell. If you are not going to read the cited article, then maybe you should stick dumping on Creighton or something sad like that. RTFA about the finer-grained controls that Vista will be implementing.Listen n00blet. For a start it's cue. cue 1. A signal, such as a word or action, used to prompt another event in a performance, such as an actor's speech or entrance, a change in lighting, or a sound effect. queue 1. A line of waiting people or vehicles. Secondly, Unix like permissions aren't going to make sod all difference in the malware game. The permissioning system on Windows as it currently stands is more extensible than the permissioning system on Unix - it just happens that the majority of people using Windows, administering Windows, and making crappy threads about Windows have no idea how to use it. Since when have virus writers/spyware writers/malware writers ever obeyed the permissioning system. "Oh gee, that dirs only got write access to administrator - we better not infect the files in there". Think about the "System Recovery" data and how hard it is to get viruses out of - there's no problem infecting the files. Permissions hamper users not villians - just like a lock on the front door only keeps out honest people. The "FA" you link to is a bunch of watered down media bull**** written by a hackneyed journalist trying to make another $ off a worn out rhetoric. You chose to take the quote out of the article, deal with the feedback. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 393641 | 2005-10-06 01:38:00 | Yeah, well, oh gee... a typo. Yeah yeah, get over it. You sound like one of those bullied people at work, trying to inflate your wounded ego by anonymously snapping at petty stuff. As to permissions, tell me... how does a virus write to a file it has no write permission to? |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 393642 | 2005-10-06 01:55:00 | Yeah, well, oh gee... a typo. Yeah yeah, get over it. You sound like one of those bullied people at work, trying to inflate your wounded ego by anonymously snapping at petty stuff.That is not a typo. "teh" or "adn" is a typo - you used the WRONG WORD. As for work, I guess at least I do work. You sound like one of those unemployed people or someone in a dead end job that sits on the net regurgitating week old articles from Slashdot as a way of attempting to make themselves appear to have a modicum of IT knowledge in a desperate bid to win intarweb friends. As to permissions, tell me... how does a virus write to a file it has no write permission to?You try putting some data in the System Restore files. They're your files, you have permissions over them, you can't write there. Yet every major virus released in the last 2 years does. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 393643 | 2005-10-06 01:58:00 | Oi! Both of you! **** and take a chill pill!! Ninja has a point though, the article writer is wrong... These permissions wont make Malware go away at all, rather just load up for the one user. Viruses may be slowed..... _may_ be slowed.... it would be a lot easier to remove the viruses/worms admittedly, if you can login as an uninfected user. Will it be too little too late though? This is something Linux has had since its creation in 1991! |
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