PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later, a security expert said Thursday.
Security companies have been taking all sorts of shots at Vista. Symantec, the world’s largest maker of antivirus software, has been leading the pack, closely followed by others including McAfee, Check Point Software Technologies and Panda Software.
“Security companies have complained that PatchGuard, while meant to lock out bad guys, also prevents certain types of security software from running. The security software makers had gotten used to taking advantage of the Windows kernel, a move Microsoft is preventing with PatchGuard.”
Symantec and others might have to invest in breaking the Windows Kernel Protection just to stay in the game. That is pretty dirty but since so much of their revenue is dependent on the typical Windows user, they will either have to break it or start expanding into T-Shirts or something else that Microsoft won’t dominate.
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