Windows Security Marketing

dhouwn · Post by **dhouwn** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:42 am

Quoting from this CNET article with much babbling from security experts and 'security experts'.

Paul Cooke, director of Windows client and enterprise security wrote:Windows running with IE 8 is the only combination of browser and operating system technology that has anything like an XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) filter

Too bad there is no Add-On for an alternative browser…

(also http://hackademix.net/2009/11/21/ies-xs ... abilities/)

Paul Cooke, director of Windows client and enterprise security wrote:"Windows 7 has investments that extend the security enhancements from Vista (like) Data Execution Prevention technology, Address Space Randomization technology, kernel patch protection, User Account Control …

Well, but…

Mark Russinovich, Windows Kernel Guru wrote:Neither UAC elevations nor Protected Mode IE define new Windows security boundaries.

(And even less with the new default behavior in Windows 7)