McAfee hits out at Microsoft once more

safety vendor McAfee has hit out at Microsoft 's claims that it's been cooperating with security providers over home windows Vista .

As formerly stated, Microsoft has announced it will allow other companies' packages get entry to to PatchGuard, the a part of Vista that denies unauthorised get admission to to the home windows kernel.

Microsoft may even allow third-birthday celebration packages to disable signals from the home windows safety middle.

each these alterations to Vista were agreed with the eu commission to prevent further lawsuits hinging on accusations that Microsoft is anti-competitive.

Siobhan MacDermott, vice chairman, global company communications at McAfee, has rubbished Microsoft's claims, but.

MacDermott advised us the business enterprise did receive a file from Microsoft the day prior to this but that it simplest contained the software program improvement package (SDK) for windows safety center.

"We retain to have questions touching on this report and have requested Microsoft for conferences and/or extra clarification about what it has despatched us," said MacDermott.

"thus far, we have not had any cooperation from Microsoft and no response on McAfee's repeated requests to study the records."

McAfee actually isn't happy, in spite of Microsoft truly having made some strive at cooperation by way of sending out an SDK. but its criticisms of Microsoft don't cease there.

"opposite to what it says publicly, Microsoft has now not cooperated with the leading protection carriers," introduced MacDermott. "we've no longer obtained anything in any respect from Microsoft regarding PatchGuard."

'under no circumstances desirable'

possibly Microsoft clearly hasn't got around to emailing McAfee the SDK for PatchGuard yet. certainly, Graham Cluley of Sophos the previous day advised us his enterprise had discovered had been "no troubles" with PatchGuard anyways.

but McAfee definitely isn't pleased simply to depart it at that.

"From McAfee's angle, it is not in any respect ideal for Microsoft to wait until a carrier % and now not provide us kernel get right of entry to till after the release of Vista," says MacDermott.

"We urge Microsoft to provide safety providers this get admission to as quickly as feasible and not wait until the 11th hour, in order that we can offer our clients the first-rate safety."

we're looking forward to a further reaction from Microsoft on McAfee's accusations, but dispatching such reducing feedback hardly seem the way to get into the best books a organization you want to have a constructive communicate with.