Company able to bypass PatchGuard in Vista

My friend Matt Hines (he is all right for a Red Sox fan) over at e-Week has a good story on Athentium, a security company from down in Palm Beach Gardens, Fl (not far from my house actually), that has circumvented the PatchGuard kernel protection in Vista.  This is I think bad news for Vista security.  PatchGuard really was not supposed to keep Symantec, McAfee and the rest out of Windows security, it was supposed to keep the bad guys out of the Windows kernel though.  If Athentium this easily worked around PatchGuard, how long do you think it is going to take the bad guys to do it?  Not very long would be my guess. I don't think we have seen the last of this one.  I hope Microsoft does something about it and soon!

On another front, the solidarity of the anti-virus, anti-Microsoft cartel seems to be cracking.  Now, Sophos and Kaspersky have come out and said they agree with Microsoft and don't understand the bitching and moaning from the Big Yellow and McAfee.  Could make it harder for the EU to come down on MS and could make for an opportunity for Sophos and Kaspersky.  Time will tell.