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- Phil246, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19sooner then later? Theres already a list of possible ways to do it with a few of them having been tested and confirmed as working : http://www.uninformed.org/?v=3&a=3
- lithuin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17This may be a legitimate concern, but the article is nothing but FUD.
It's one step away from Symantec claiming that Vista is more prone to viruses than XP. Show me some proof, or at least some plausible, technical explanation of how a theoretical attack might work.
If I go out to purchase a new car, I don't avoid purchasing air bags because a clever murderer might find some way to disable them and cut the line to my breaks. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Office works fine under WINE, or you could try Gnome Office or OpenOffice.org or Koffice. Or mix and match your favorite application from each - I prefer Abiword and Gnumeric from Gnome Office, and Impress from OpenOffice.org.
As far as your camera RAW processing, Adobe took the open source solution, dcraw, to include in PhotoShop:
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2005/01/25/68-digital-camera-raw-files-on-linux - JaytB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7As for Symantecs response, it has probably everything to do with licenses.
What I make from this article: XP will be more vulnerable after Vista is released, mmmm (m for marketing?) - drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The interesting part is that security firms assume it's their right to access the kernel like hackers. If Microsoft succeeds in keeping both out then it really shouldn't matter. Honestly I don't trust Symantec or a black hat touch my kernel. Ultimately a lot of the white hats at Symantec could be grey hats and probably are. In this field the easiest way to protect against abuse is to try to keep out good and bad if you can and Microsoft is going to attempt it. At least they are trying something new and if that hasn't convinced you how stupid Symantec is, do you really want to believe a company that produced a product like GoBack on how to secure your systems?
- maukdaddy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Since when is someone's postulation on the security of a feature news?! Crap like this should not be on the front page!
Marked as inaccurate. - zigamorph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I am an avid Windows user. But if that is your only reason for not switching to Linux you would probably find a great deal of comfort in MacOSX
- JohnnyG77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmmm, a security "expert" voices an opinion that will keep him/her employed by speculating "be hacked sooner rather than later". Shocking!!!!
- pathy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Meep.
A security feature isn't 100% bullet proof. Someone catch me as I faint. - fjc8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What I recommend doing is sticking with Windows. Seriously.
There is a lot of FUD spread around about Windows security. - PieceOfShoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This guy didn't do any research before he wrote his article.
It has already been totally disassembled on Windows x64. Unless the implementation is markedly different in Vista x64 (which I doubt based on my initial research) then this document already explains exactly how it works and how to get by it.
http://uninformed.org/index.cgi?v=3&a=3
They use to have a Word .doc file that was much easier to read. Clicking next next next gets annoying. - cmiller1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3DOS attacks are easy if you try using an actual bullet on the computer
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What I'd suggest you do, is take an inventory of ALL the software applications you use, and all the hardware peripherals and devices you use w/ Windows and play with a Linux LiveCD to see if you can accomplish the same things.
Ubuntu's Edgy Eft release is coming out in a few days, so you might just wait for it, and run it as a LiveCD for a while to see if everything you need is there. Odds are what you'll find lacking is support for certain wireless cards, and crummy graphics drivers if you have an ATI card. If you use Intel or Nvidia it's not so much a problem. With ATI however, you're almost completely screwed. Aside from that, you'll probably find most everything else you need. And you can always search through the Ubuntu Forums if you're having trouble trying to do something. They're usually very helpful. - mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2UFRaw seems to be the best in my experiance. It's standalone or a gimp-plugin and you can batch process with some defaults and easily convert an entire shoot into TIFF. Let's see Photoshop do that!
- ThinkFr33ly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wait, so this guy claims that PatchGuard will be cracked because without cracking it Windows is much harder to compromise.
Gee... thanks for the insight. Talk about a media hog looking for unwarranted attention. - netferret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here we go again.
- zigamorph, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4With all the crap that a mal-ware writer would have to go through inorder to accomplish this hack around PatchGuard it would be pretty easy to detect. Because anything can be hacked it is just if it is a detectable hack or not.
- bitswapper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Everyone who's worked on any computer program sufficiently large knows that there are *always* bugs - lack of range checking, failed exception handlers, and a flurry of other things that make it possible to exploit software, especially in operating systems. The only way this stuff gets corrected is time, attention, and people reporting the things they find openly.
Claims regarding the hardness of a seasoned codebase are dubious, but perhaps passable, as with various branches the BSD codebase for example. Such claims about a brand new codebase are ludicrous. Vista is still a sponge, and will be for years. - zacmccormick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice link, I haven't looked too much into this technology, I will now though because I'm always down to read articles delving into Windows assembly listings :)
Keep up the good work IDA/kd hackers! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ASLR will be interesting. I am curious to see how people will try to get around that.
If they start using all 256 possibilities.
http://www.sysdream.com/articles/Analysis-of-Microsoft-Windows-Vista's-ASLR.pdf - djekz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0under ubuntu or debian:
apt-get install gimp-dcraw - darrin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Check out DC RAW for linux for your RAW photos. Not a pretty interface (last I used it) but it works well.
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6OpenOffice.org is a great Office solution on Linux, as it's practically a clone of the Microsoft Office you're already used to. I don't know much about RAW processing on digital cameras, but considering how much of a calling HDR photography has, I'm sure there's a wealth of tools already. Ubuntu.org is a great place to start!
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1"Expert: Windows Kernel Protection Expected To Break Soon"
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Marked as inaccurate for obvious reasons, by the way. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7Every time I see another article about Windows security I wonder again if I could move my life over to Linux. I use Linux for software development, but there are applications I don't want to live without on Windows XP, particularly Office & digital camera RAW processing.
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