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Harry Waldron pointed out on his blog an article from the CRN Test Center that claims that XP and Vista are equally at peril when it comes to security. There are many problems with this CRN review, the most obvious being that they appeared to be testing...
Today Symantec released two new whitepapers about security protections in Vista: Analysis of GS Protection in Windows Vista and Analysis of Address Space Layout Randomization on Windows Vista. Although my last blog post criticized Symantec for its hyped...
Ok, this issue started with an article by Symantec titled “An Example of Why UAC Prompts in Vista Can’t Always Be Trusted.” After that, Thor (Hammer of God) posted his opinion on Bugtraq, which prompted a few other responses. So I decided...
Recently a friend was complaining to me about the “screen flickering” that occurs whenever a User Account Control (UAC) prompt comes up in Vista and he wanted to know how to turn it off—not UAC, just the dimming and flickering effects. He...
When I was a teenager in California there was private oil pier near Rincon that we liked to jump off. It was great—you’d throw your surf board off first so there was no backing out, because it was scary looking down at the dark green ocean so far below...