RE: Microsoft blames Vista insecurity on thirdparty applications

[Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

This is the blog the article talks about (without actually linking to
it, as far as I can see):
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/19/window
s-vista-and-protection-from-malware.aspx
 
> > (Though to be fair to the author, Tom Sanders, he seems to be
paraphrasing the Microsoft guy in charge of security.  Yeah, that's
better...)

No, he's misrepresenting what Jim Allchin, the author of the blog entry
says. What Allchin says is that while the malware in the study might
technically execute on Vista it wouldn't, as a practical matter, get
through to the point of executing because any decent mail client would
block executable attachments, even in ZIP files, etc.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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