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Re: Are they serious with this 'security' in Win7? [message #30697 is a reply to message #30667]

Mon, 17 January 2011 16:05

Mindtraveller
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There are a number of things which may be considered strange.
Many internal Win7 utilities such as firewall may be considered ineffective or badly designed, or even harmful. And I agree with it.
But still Win7 itself is rather good-working, effective and stable OS (I do try stressing it heavily for a number of months already - and it is certainly more stable than even XP SP2/3). More important is that Windows platform is the most common one in a number of areas.

By the way, that is how M$ explains installer detection process:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd835540%28WS.10% 29.aspx

Quote:

Installer detection only applies to:

* 32-bit executable files.

* Applications without a requested execution level attribute.

* Interactive processes running as a standard user with UAC enabled.

Before a 32-bit process is created, the following attributes are checked to determine whether it is an installer:

* The file name includes keywords such as "install," "setup," or "update."

* Versioning Resource fields contain the following keywords: Vendor, Company Name, Product Name, File Description, Original Filename, Internal Name, and Export Name.

* Keywords in the side-by-side manifest are embedded in the executable file.

* Keywords in specific StringTable entries are linked in the executable file.

* Key attributes in the resource script data are linked in the executable file.

* There are targeted sequences of bytes within the executable file.

[Updated on: Mon, 17 January 2011 16:27]

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