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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 05 February 2007 | |
  
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Looking at some of the other security vendors, Symantec, Trend Micro and Sophos have already updated their products for Microsoft's latest operating system. Prior to the release of Vista, Symantec and some other vendors were highly critical of Microsoft's PatchGuard feature that protects the kernel from modification, saying it restricted their ability to provide comprehensive security features. Kaspersky, in contrast, supported Microsoft's position.
However, PatchGuard is only a feature of the 64-bit version of Vista, and Microsoft provided additional APIs allowing security software developers to switch off Windows Defender and replace Windows Security Center alerts with their own.{moscomment} |
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