Tech Support Forum - View Single Post

hopper · 04-19-2007, 02:53 PM

Now that I've had a chance to work on it, I think I have it under control.

Used spybot to check the LSP chain, and of course 1 and 2 are newdotnet.

You know, I haven't worked with Vista much, but I think it's new "advanced security" is something of a joke. All the UAC seems to do is annoy the heck out of every single operation the user tries to perform. This person only had this PC for a week. Does Vista in any way protect a user from one of the oldest, most common forms of malware in existance? UAC needs to confirm my accessing Network in Control Panel, but it doesn't need to confirm changes in the registry to the LSP chain from crapware? Give me a break.

As someone who once received a paycheck supporting M$ products, and who has vocally defended them for years, I can honestly say that I can't wait for the day when we are all running open source OS's and apps.

04-19-2007, 02:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
hopper Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 169 OS: XP / Ubuntu 6.10	Re: Winsock and Vista Now that I've had a chance to work on it, I think I have it under control. Used spybot to check the LSP chain, and of course 1 and 2 are newdotnet. You know, I haven't worked with Vista much, but I think it's new "advanced security" is something of a joke. All the UAC seems to do is annoy the heck out of every single operation the user tries to perform. This person only had this PC for a week. Does Vista in any way protect a user from one of the oldest, most common forms of malware in existance? UAC needs to confirm my accessing Network in Control Panel, but it doesn't need to confirm changes in the registry to the LSP chain from crapware? Give me a break. As someone who once received a paycheck supporting M$ products, and who has vocally defended them for years, I can honestly say that I can't wait for the day when we are all running open source OS's and apps.