Symantec and McAfee refuse to work with Microsoft
TechWeb | at | by Mike
Unlike rivals Symantec and McAfee, U.K.-based Sophos won't criticize Microsoft for locking down the kernel of the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. Instead, a company researcher on Monday took the competitors to task for their lack of foresight.
"With the amount of time and effort spent adjudicating this publicly, they could have made more progress if they had worked with Microsoft," said Ron O'Brien, a Sophos senior security analyst.
The company's chief technology officer, Richard Jacobs, was even more blunt. "Symantec and McAfee may be struggling with HIPS host intrusion prevention system because they haven't coded their solutions with 64-bit Vista in mind," said Jacobs in a statement Monday. "We've taken a different approach to HIPS, by focusing more on catching bad behavior by analyzing code before it executes.