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Story: Windows software security FAIL?Total Replies: 2
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tracyanne

May 10, 2010
9:17 PM EDT
Quoting:Buggy kernel mode drivers in desktop security products from major vendors threaten to make mockery of the concept of Windows security.


I thought it was a mockery already.
jdixon

May 10, 2010
9:39 PM EDT
> I thought it was a mockery already.

I was going to ask if Windows security had ever been a success, but it just seemed too easy.
phsolide

May 10, 2010
10:55 PM EDT
This whole issue goes to the heart of Windows' bad design.

Yeah, yeah, "design is a by-product", but you can see what decisions to include baroque, nearly undocumented programming interfaces leads to: major problems. Problems of a magnitude unheard of on other platforms.

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