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At least going by the recent Pwn2Own competitions, the answer seems to be no. We'll see how they fare at the next ones. The AppGuard virtualization thing or wh
by mtgx 10y ago
At least going by the recent Pwn2Own competitions, the answer seems to be no. We'll see how they fare at the next ones.
The AppGuard virtualization thing or whatever they are calling it better come as an API for other apps soon as well, and I hope Microsoft won't just keep it for its own products. I could see serious anti-competitive issues with that (important OS feature being kept from competitors so Microsoft can aid its own products).
I also don't understand why they are making that feature part of "Windows Defender". It doesn't make any sense to do that, except for "brand unification". I think it should be kept separate.
- Klathmon 10y agoAppGuard is interesting, but it's kind of "cheating". That's not to say it's a bad thing, better security is a win, but it might come with some significant downsides to battery and performance, and most likely will not be a "general purpose" security mechanism for the masses (at least right now they are only showing it off as something a corporate network admin can enable for some sites). Then again, this is all speculation. They could prove me horribly wrong and wipe the damn floor with the competition!
- dogma1138 10y agoAppGuard was disabled in the latest Pwn2Own AFAIK, so were a few other Windows security measures.