sourceMicrosoft's plan to provide limited access to the Vista kernel in the 64-bit version of the upcoming OS is not enough, a Symantec executive said Tuesday.
"It's not enough at all," said Rowan Trollope, Symantec's vice president of consumer engineering, and the man in charge of the security company's Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security products. "It leaves customers exposed to threats."
Trollope's rebuff is the latest in the increasingly antagonistic brawl between Microsoft and Symantec, which remains a partner of the Redmond, Wash.-based operating system giant. Since September, Symantec has publicly criticized Microsoft's PatchGuard, a technology it will deploy in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista that locks out all access to the kernel. PatchGuard is meant to stop both malicious code and third-party software from making changes at the kernel level, and has been touted by Microsoft as a defense against rootkits and other malware.
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