Microsoft Corp. is working on security technologies for the upcoming Longhorn release of Windows that will protect users against security threats by monitoring system and network behavior as well as the security patches that Microsoft has issued. The new technologies will allow Windows to detect irregular system behavior -- in terms of network traffic, memory usage and system calls, for example -- and respond to them automatically, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in a presentation at the RSA Conference in San Francisco Tuesday.
The result of the development effort, which Microsoft refers to as "active protection technologies," should protect systems from worms and viruses by preventing and containing attacks, according to Microsoft. A component of the protection system, dubbed "dynamic system protection," will track which security patches users have installed. The component will make changes to the Windows firewall to fend off any attacks that appear to take advantage of a security flaw that users have not yet patched themselves against. For example, if Microsoft has provided a patch for a flaw involving ActiveX controls, dynamic system protection will block ActiveX controls from running on a Windows system until that patch is installed, Microsoft said.
News source: InfoWorld
The result of the development effort, which Microsoft refers to as "active protection technologies," should protect systems from worms and viruses by preventing and containing attacks, according to Microsoft. A component of the protection system, dubbed "dynamic system protection," will track which security patches users have installed. The component will make changes to the Windows firewall to fend off any attacks that appear to take advantage of a security flaw that users have not yet patched themselves against. For example, if Microsoft has provided a patch for a flaw involving ActiveX controls, dynamic system protection will block ActiveX controls from running on a Windows system until that patch is installed, Microsoft said.
News source: InfoWorld
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They keep promicing all of this new stuff, spam virus, world peace etc.... but it will be just the sasme in 2-3 years time, mark my words
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Yes, I'm sure there will be GPOs to prevent activity like this, and/or registry keys. But I'd personally want it that difficult. It's about time that MS gets known for a more "hard line" stance on security, rather than allowing simple check boxes to prevent really good practices.
Just keep in mind that, to the operating system, a virus can just as well be "you". So if "you" can turn such a feature off, a virus should be able to as well, especially if the user is fooled to launching it. Which is the way most viruses spread today.
if yes... why bother?
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ROTFL
I seriously doubt that. Maybe music would be cheaper if people didn't pirate that as well. Those ****ers would just get pocket more.
One friend of mine refuses to run a firewall because last time he tried he set it up to block all traffic regardless (don't ask me how he managed this) so he thinks that all firewalls block all traffic and nothing i can say will convince him otherwise. Another friend (i wonder why i have so many incompetant friends at times..) had Blaster sitting on his computer for weeks because he thought "it would just go away". He knew what it was and he'd applied the patch but the fact that his AV software alerted him every boot didn't seem to make him want to do anything about it.
My brother *ignores* virus warnings. He'll call me into his room to look at something and by the time i've got there he's closed the alert window and says "It was somethign about a trojan.. Probably a virus..".
There are bumpers to prevent your car from driving off the road.
There are a million tiny little preventative measures to keep you not only from hurting yourself, but others incidentally.
This is no different... you take all these things for granted because they are explained to you as part of culture that it is for your protection.
So is this. The online computing culture needs to change. You may not like it, and I sympathize, but I'm sure it'll be no less inconvenient than any other tool in life.
For example, you can fix your car on your own, too. And cars have been around longer than Linux. So why aren't you a natural born mechanic? Technically, that's easier to learn, too.
People want simplicity over the ability to do everything. The masses do, anyway. Noone really cares that they don't know how a TV works. They hit a channel, it goes there, that's fine. Nowadays there are more people on the internet than have cable. Do you really truly honestly believe that people will just want Linux because they want control?
Besides, that actually is more of a cheap shot. It's not like you lose control here, it's that the system auto-updates or auto-secures based upon known vulnerabilities. Would you really want Linux to not do that?
You're taking this highly out of context.
I read this as: If windows update shows a critical update in RPC services, then the client's RPC service exposure will be hardened until the update is loaded.
It isn't like big brother is watching over you. It's a way to allow intelligent protection based upon known holes that Microsoft has already published fixes for.
I think its a good feature, unless they use a good idea at the MS way, as they always do I must add, and turn it into something annoying ( like the office assistant )
i mean i know at least 20 people who call themselves computer experts [LOL] who dont know what a firewall does or they dont know that downloading a file named [for example] picname.jpg.exe is a virus.
i think these people should be kept off pc's maybe a test is needed when u get a pc? lol.
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