After McAfee and Symantec’s swings at Microsoft - saying that the giant isn’t cooperating with them - another virus maker has come out and said that there is no evidence of Microsoft stopping them from doing anything.
Kaspersky labs, a Russian based security group, has said in Reuters on Friday:
“From what we have seen of Vista we cannot tell that Microsoft is blocking access to the core,” Kaspersky Lab Chief Executive and co-founder Natalya Kaspersky told Reuters in an interview in Paris.
No surprises here. Soon after McAfee and Symantec made swings at Microsoft, BetaNews had gone out to find other companies opinion. Sophos also found no problems with the Vista security model, in fact saying:
Conceivably, if Sophos wanted to provide a “total security solution,” given this new set of circumstances, wouldn’t it need to understand some of PatchGuard’s secrets? Surprisingly, O’Brien told us no. “At this point in time, Sophos does not see the need to be able to access the kernel within the Microsoft operating system,” he said.
“If there is a point in time where the kernel becomes the subject of malware being written specifically to it, then I would expect that we would go back to Microsoft and tell them we need to be able to access the kernel. But at this point, it doesn’t appear to be necessary.”
So, this seems to be the big security companies being the only ones kicking up a fuss. They have the most to lose I suppose. Still, you shouldn’t get McAfee or Symantec products anyway - they are overpriced and resource hogging. You should just find some free alternatives (that also happily work with Vista).
