Symantec Wants to Lend a Hand with Vista Security
Somehow this strikes me as a phenomenally bad idea.
Joris Evers writes on C|Net News:
Symantec is thinking up ways to take the pain out of a security feature in Windows Vista.More here.
The Cupertino, Calif., company has plans to create a technology that makes security decisions for Vista owners dealing with User Account Control. This feature in the operating system asks for permission to lift security barriers to the inner workings of a PC whenever software tries to access these. But it makes too many requests to be effective, according to Symantec.
"I have been running Vista for a while, and UAC bugged the heck out of me--to the point where I tuned it out and, eventually, turned it off," Rowan Trollope, vice president of consumer products at Symantec, said in an interview. "If a company could do better, it would be one of us security companies."
While Trollope's comments may seem self-serving, Natalie Lambert, an analyst with Forrester Research, said the company has a valid point.
posted by Fergie @ 1/10/2007 09:08:00 AM
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