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Vista can have super secret code that runs on your machine
2 CommentsAccording to Alex Ionescu, Vista has “Protected Processes” which are supposedly super secure processes. According to Alex:
Which means that all applications such as virus scanners, malware protectors, and any other kind of application that hooks all system processes, injects threads into them or even discretely reads their memory doesn’t work on Vista when it hits a protected process.
But that’s ok, because it’s hard to create a protected process, isn’t it? Alex says no, he’s done it, and what’s more he’s releasing the code into the wild.
So your anti-virus solutions won’t work on Vista, you’ll have secret processes running in the background and your computer might “degrade” performance for any number of random reasons. Seems like good reasons to hold off to me.
Published on April 10, 2007 · Filed under: Computing;
2 Responses to “Vista can have super secret code that runs on your machine”
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Neil said on April 10th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
I have so many runtime errors with windows vista, it makes me a little angry. If the machine did not come with vista, I would not even have bothered to get any mircosoft products. I am required to use MS word and PowerPoint for my school, the staff there can not figure out anything else; otherwise I would not even have those programs sucking the life out of my machine.
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shane.vincent said on April 11th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Hi Neil,
You could use Open Office for the word documents, just save the documents in word format. But you still need powerpoint for whatever. Open Office can open powerpoint files, and it might even be able to save them, but it does lack some of the templates.
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