Microsoft slams shut PatchGuard loophole

Just a few days ago I wrote about Athentium using a loophole to get around PatchGuard in Vista.  At the time I said I hoped Microsoft did something about it.  Well it did not take the Redmond boys long.  Today comes word that Microsoft has slammed shut the loophole used by Athentium.  Furthermore, they have vowed to close any other holes that pop up and allow access to the kernel equally as fast. I think it is a good thing and we will all be safer for it. 

Of course I am sure the squealers will say that the fact that Microsoft did not do this in the course of the regular Patch Tuesday stuff is further evidence of their anti-competitive behavior, but let them squeal.