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Zombie9920:
Microsoft on Monday will detail a future version of Windows that will make it easier to detect and isolate viruses.

Additionally, the Redmond, Wash.-based developer will show off new features in Microsoft Word 2003 and Exchange 2003 for fingering viruses and spam at the RSA Security Conference taking place in San Francisco this week.

The Windows Filter Manager Architecture is a set of application protocol interfaces (APIs) and code that will be added to Windows to handle some of the basic operational tasks of antivirus applications, such as how the application sets up an ordinary hard drive scan, according to Jonathan Perera, senior director of Microsoft's security business unit. In a sense, Filter Manager is analogous to printer drivers, he said. In the past, printer makers did their own drivers. Now, they write to a common set of APIs.

"It handles a lot of the hardware touching," he said. "This will make it easier for (antivirus) developers to get their products to market faster."

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xyle_one:
maybe microsoft should just do a complete rewrite of windows. just look at the nature of *nix based operating systems. secure from the ground up.
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#virus

lazygamer:
Would a rewrite with a good compatibility mode be possible? I think people would be willing to upgrade to all new software if there was all sorts of benchmarks that could prove the rewritten wind0ze was vastly superior to the old. Problem is, hasn't Microsoft been saying each new wind0ze is awesome anyways?  
(and people listen anyways)

Anyways, this announcment is either:

1)Something to do with DRM/TCPA.

2)Proof that Microsoft plans on trying to win the war by taking away ammo from the naysayers(by making Windows better so there is less that can be validly said to discredit it).

3)Both.

Calum:
that rewrite with back compatibility is possible, after all they built a lot of dos/win32 compatibility into NT, but i suspect that the performance of the back compatibility would suffer. the best way would be to use emulators so as to keep the back compatibility bits modular and seperate from the actual system. however it would be more expensive and time consuming than MS' usual tactic of releasing any old schlock and getting people to buy it because microsoft made it, which is what i expect this will be.

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off topic:
DO NOT - i repeat - DO NOT flame zombie90210. many of you post nothing but useless trolling shit on here and he has posted a valid thread. you will leave him alone until two things happen:
1) you stop posting shit
2) he starts posting shit

You know who you are.

Refalm:

quote:Calum: crusader for peace & freedom: DO NOT - i repeat - DO NOT flame zombie90210. many of you post nothing but useless trolling shit on here and he has posted a valid thread. you will leave him alone until two things happen:
1) you stop posting shit
2) he starts posting shit

You know who you are.
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Er... Ex Eleven?  :D

[ April 16, 2003: Message edited by: Refalm ]

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