Kaspersky: Windows Vista Firewall Is Full of Leaks
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 27.12.2007
According to Microsoft, Window Vista is the most secure Windows operating system available on the market.
The Redmond company has now been shy about downplaying the relevance of previous Windows iterations in order to push Vista to the foreground in terms of security. It is in fact an old drum that Microsoft has been beating repeatedly even before Vista hit the shelves, in an effort to focus consumers on the latest Windows platform. Unlike Mac OS X and Linux, Windows is, by no means, a landmark of the security landscape. Vista came to fix this aspect. According to Russian antivirus maker, Kaspersky, Microsoft did good, but not enough.
"Even the latest operating systems, such as Windows Vista, cannot block all types of leaks on their own (although, from Windows XP SP2 onwards, Windows has included a firewall. Firewall functionality was significantly expanded in Windows Vista). According to the results of testing conducted in March 2007 by Guillaume Kaddouch, Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit using default settings blocked only 9 leak tests (the leak tests blocked are shown in green in the results table)", revealed Kaspersky's Nikolay Grebennikov, Deputy Director of the Innovation Technologies.
In Kaspersky's perspective, leak tests used to evaluate Vista's firewall point to the holes in Microsoft's latest operating system, holes that recommend the implementation of third-party security solutions. Grebennikov predicted that even with the added mitigations in Vista, such as User Account Control, Internet Explorer Protect Mode, and PatchGuard, the operating system is still vulnerable in its default configuration.
"Even Windows Vista requires third-party protection programs to provide the necessary level of protection from leaks. In the future, malicious programs will implement new methods in order to bypass protection mechanisms in the new operating system as well as existing protection mechanisms. This is why the importance of the firewall as an additional level of protection will only increase. Clearly, malware writers will increasingly use leak technologies to bypass firewalls. This means that leak tests will become a crucial method for testing the reliability of a computer’s protection", Grebennikov added.
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Comments(9)
"even the latest operating systems, such as windows vista, cannot block all types of
leaks on their own (although, from windows xp sp2 onwards, windows has included a
firewal.."
kaspersky says that. ofcourse they'd say that. they want to sell
their firewall solutions don't they? duh!
noone should trust the os alone for security, very stupid, always include third partie
protections.
makes it the potential hacker a little more difficult to get at your
stuff.
you can trust linux for firewall, or mac os x.
you dont need third party to do
policing. microsoft is just getting away with that part of os and i wish someone sue him
oneday.
crap guys, who the hell doesn't use a router nowadays which comes with a hardware
firewall..
mac os is a piece of crapware for retarded
mac os is a rubbish operating system purely for retards! only vista and linux should be
given the used but no operating system is safe without any protection; this includes
windows, linux and mac.
why i am not surprised what kaspersky found. everytime we have vista discussion, i see
people also drag mac into the discussion as well. just be realistic, when there is a hole
in vista, then there is a hole in vista and it has nothing to do with a mac. and when
there is a hole in mac os, then there is a hole in mac os. fanboys, just accept the truth
if windows was leak proof they'd all be complaining that ms is a monopoly and that they
cant sell their product.. and they'd take them to court so that the security companies
can hack it to death so they can plug in their own software... oh wait..!
why would you use just windows firewall, you would still need a software or hardware
firewall such as, mcafee, norton, nod32, always have a back up of your system.
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Look from the other side of the fence as well
By Razor on 28.12.2007 - 03:12