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Advanced Microsoft Security...
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:05 am
by Kale
>Malware Author 1: Vista is easily going to spot our vicious program...
>Malware Author 2: Rename it to 'Nice and Fluffy.exe'.
>Malware Author 1: Great, no more problem!
>Malware Author 2: I love Microsoft, they make it so easy.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/23 ... g_oddness/
"If Vista sees that you have created a Microsoft Visual C++ project with install in the project name, then that .exe will automatically require Admin Rights to run. Create exactly the same project, but call it, say, Fred, and the problem disappears," he explained. "Vista's security isn't just concerned with what an .exe is doing to your PC, but what it's actually called."
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:43 am
by Derek
Nice one MicroSoft.
Re: Advanced Microsoft Security...
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:30 am
by PB
Well, some installer apps try to auto-install other third-party apps, so this is
actually a good method to stop that happening behind the scenes, especially
because the user can't rename the installer file.
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:38 am
by Brice Manuel
If you want security, this is the guy you need to talk to:
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:37 pm
by Tipperton
Birds of a feather....
...Vista and ME....!
(or should that be *dogs*? either way I wouldn't want to have to clean their "nests"....lots of crap!)
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:21 pm
by Joakim Christiansen
Brice Manuel wrote:If Netmaestro doesn't have the solution, you don't have a problem.
Hehe, agreed!
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:22 pm
by Dare
Joakim Christiansen wrote:Brice Manuel wrote:If Netmaestro doesn't have the solution, you don't have a problem.
Hehe, agreed!
LOL
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:32 pm
by netmaestro
*// gets flamethrower out
*// looks pensively at it, puts it back
*// picks up massive, unbelievably huge flamethrower
*// plays index finger gently and lovingly over hair trigger
Excuse me mr. dare, may I ask just why it is you find that funny?
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:17 pm
by Fangbeast
ROFLMAO!!!