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They could, but this isn't just a technical issue it's also a legal and political issue where several AV vendors are currently suing MS in the EU for alleged an
by leeter 9y ago
They could, but this isn't just a technical issue it's also a legal and political issue where several AV vendors are currently suing MS in the EU for alleged anti-trust behavior. So the lawyers compromise everybody's security.
- epistasis 9y agothat seems like a fairly questionable blame-shift for MS. If they don't have the guts to provide even that level of protection, yet more reason to shift away from them except for trivial things like gaming.
- bomb199 9y agoSo if you edit the Kernel on your version of Ubuntu, then Canonical should be held responsible? That seems like a crazy thought process. You're running software that modifies Window's internal functionality. The vendor knows it's unsupported. How can you blame the company who just made the platform you compromised? Might as well set your root password to "password" and open it to the public then complain that the security is bad.
- Arnavion 9y agoIn fact your kernel does become "tainted" if you install unsupported kernel drivers (the closest equivalent to what the problematic Windows AVs do). If your support comes from RH, SuSE or similar vendors it usually becomes limited, depending on the kind of taint.
- viraptor 9y agoThat's definitely one of the reasons to do it the way they have. But it's their choice. They chose to have a technical/security problem rather than a political/legal one. Or specifically they choose the customers to have a problem rather than themselves.