Comments on: Window’s crashes linked to rootkits after problems with latest patch http://www.coretraceblogs.com/2010-02/windows-crashes-linked-to-rootkits-after-problems-with-latest-patch/ The Application Whitelisting and Security Weblog Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:10:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Greg Newman http://www.coretraceblogs.com/2010-02/windows-crashes-linked-to-rootkits-after-problems-with-latest-patch/#comment-985 Greg Newman Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:54:55 +0000 http://www.coretraceblogs.com/?p=1297#comment-985 "What these recent stories point out is that malware infections on these devices only highlights the fact that existing desktop security isn’t working properly. Why else are these companies regularly patching? The desktop security paradigm of antivirus and patching simply isn’t working." Agreed. This should be obvious to experts and novices in computer-ese. We've all experienced the constant cycle and recycle of endless viral malware attacks "fixed" only temporarily by patches and upgrades. That's be no true fix at all, has been a real headache for us, is frustrating to say the least, yet has become the status quo because that's how we thought it was done. I want to see your product on our home computers and small office PC's, and are looking forward to ditching the old paradigm for the new paradigm of application whitelisting when it becomes available for retail consumers. “What these recent stories point out is that malware infections on these devices only highlights the fact that existing desktop security isn’t working properly. Why else are these companies regularly patching? The desktop security paradigm of antivirus and patching simply isn’t working.”

Agreed. This should be obvious to experts and novices in computer-ese. We’ve all experienced the constant cycle and recycle of endless viral malware attacks “fixed” only temporarily by patches and upgrades. That’s be no true fix at all, has been a real headache for us, is frustrating to say the least, yet has become the status quo because that’s how we thought it was done. I want to see your product on our home computers and small office PC’s, and are looking forward to ditching the old paradigm for the new paradigm of application whitelisting when it becomes available for retail consumers.

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