Re: [newbie] MS warns of 'rootkits'

2005-02-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:28, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 6:39 pm, Chris wrote:
> > Hm, if the authors of chkrootkit and rootkit hunter can come up with a
> > windows version they'd give MS some competition.
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,99843,00.html
> 
> Kinda looks like MS wants the world to embrace Longhorn, and love that the 
> processor will be checking for only MS Certified Software on their machines.
> 
> Rob

It's only "marketing" - M$ CAN NEVER stop attacks against them. They can
only use F.U.D. to make it appear as though they CAN...

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Re: [newbie] MS warns of 'rootkits'

2005-02-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 6:39 pm, Chris wrote:
> Hm, if the authors of chkrootkit and rootkit hunter can come up with a
> windows version they'd give MS some competition.
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,99843,00.html

Kinda looks like MS wants the world to embrace Longhorn, and love that the 
processor will be checking for only MS Certified Software on their machines.

Rob
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[newbie] MS warns of 'rootkits'

2005-02-22 Thread Chris
Hm, if the authors of chkrootkit and rootkit hunter can come up with a windows 
version they'd give MS some competition.

http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,99843,00.html

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