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Two New Vista Papers by Symantec

Today Symantec released two new whitepapers about security protections in Vista: Analysis of GS Protection in Windows Vista and Analysis of Address Space Layout Randomization on Windows Vista. Although my last blog post criticized Symantec for its hyped...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2007 2:35 PM by MB's Windows Security

Filed under: General, Windows Security, Hardening, Malware

Really, Vista Security Isn’t Lame

Recently a friend was complaining to me about the “screen flickering” that occurs whenever a User Account Control (UAC) prompt comes up in Vista and he wanted to know how to turn it off—not UAC, just the dimming and flickering effects. He...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2007 4:25 PM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Windows Security, Hardening, Malware, NTFS, Uncategorized, Windows File Protection

Is UAC a Fence That Falls Short?

When I was a teenager in California there was private oil pier near Rincon that we liked to jump off. It was great—you’d throw your surf board off first so there was no backing out, because it was scary looking down at the dark green ocean so far below...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2007 1:50 PM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Windows Security, Hardening, Malware

More on Program.exe

I thought I would add a bit more to my original post to clarify the problem. Half of the problem is the way Windows searches paths, and the other half is software developers who don’t quote their paths in the Registry or when calling CreateProcess...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2007 6:57 PM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Hardening, Malware

The Program.exe Problem

A couple years ago I mentioned in a SecurityFocus column that Windows has a problem when you put a file named “program.exe” in the system root directory. The problem is basically in how it deals with spaces in paths that don’t have quotes...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2007 1:30 PM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Hardening, Malware, Application Security, Tools

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Two New Vista Papers by Symantec

Really, Vista Security Isn’t Lame

Is UAC a Fence That Falls Short?

More on Program.exe

The Program.exe Problem