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echo: osdebate
to: mike
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2007-02-15 07:13:28
subject: Re: Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"mike"  wrote in message
news:qp47t217su4asisj0on59nndl7q4294lar{at}4ax.com...
> That's because Vista uses a compatibility database and
> several heuristics to recognize installer executables and,
> every time the OS detects that an executable is a setup
> program, "it will only allow running it as administrator."

So, I would only need to figure out the heuristics rule set, and then I
could make my virus look like a setup executable and gain administrator
privileges? Well that's just great. Wanna bet that it's already done? Just
about the stupidest thing in the world, to let a computer use heuristics to
decide if an executable should be given full access...


Antti Kurenniemi

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