Verily I say unto thee, that Ron House spake thusly:
> BearItAll wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Program Names govern admin rights in Vista
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | "This is a little bit silly: just name the installer something
>>> | else, and Vista lets it through," Chess said. He added that
>>> | although the feature is imperfect and inconvenient, it's
>>> | "better than nothing".
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>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/23/vista_program_naming_oddness/
>
> Did you notice this bit:
>
> 'Secure coding specialist Fortify Software said Microsoft's Installer
> Detection technology acted as a screen against spyware. While imperfect,
> and odd in the way its behaviour is affected by the names given to
> project, the feature is better than nothing.
>
> '"The Vista feature you've run into is the equivalent of an airport
> metal detector," explained Dr Brian Chess, chief scientist at Fortify
> Software' ?
>
> Noo, Mr so-called chief scientist, it is like a 'detector' at the
> airport that detects things that have the word 'metal' printed on them.
Nice analysis :)
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K.
http://slated.org
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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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