____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 01 March 2008 08:48 : \____
> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Jerry McBride wrote:
>>
>>> Hell, I'll even go so far as to suggest that msft may be the
>>> originator of some, if not all, of the windows virus, malware and
>>> worms. Who better to know the attack vectors, than the programmer of
>>> the OS itself?
>>
>> Don't know about the Vole specifically, but I've long suspected the AV
>> vendors of fuelling the same fires they purport to extinguish. Given the
>> covert nature of Windows development, it seems reasonable that Microsoft
>> are involved somehow, although much can be achieved with reverse
>> engineering, as many FOSS projects have already demonstrated.
>
> Be in no doubt, it's in the interests of AV companies to fuel some fear.
> I'm quite sure that they've considered writing viruses, even if they
> haven't actually done it...
>
>>
>> The vast number of exploits do seem to indicate Microsoft's complicity.
>> Either that, or there's more hackers using computer's than regular
>> users, which seems unlikely. Of course the cynical answer is that
>> Windows must be trivial to hack, not that I have any personal
>> experience, beyond that of a Malware victim. The closest I ever got was
>> experimenting with TSRs back in the DOS days, and Amiga coolcapture and
>> coldcapture vectors before that. No I wasn't writing viruses :) I was
>> experimenting with bootable ram disks.
>>
>
> Personally, I still believe that Microsoft just write sh1te code. I
> don't think that they care all that much about AV companies, but they
> *do* care about selling an improved version of the same thing every year
> or so. Gates even said so, back in about 1994 or so. Therefore, I
> agree with the view that problems are deliberately not "properly" fixed,
> but I doubt Microsoft have the skills to selectively drip security
> problems in, rather, I suspect that the lack the skills to write secure
> code.
Watch what Kempin said about sufficiency and having to make programs more
resource hungry. That's 'Microsoft think'. Of course, in a competitive market,
this type of behaviour won't prevail
Behold low-cost Linux laptops galore.
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