Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel (www.theverge.com)
from baatliwala@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.ml on 26 Jun 16:46
https://lemmy.world/post/32032150

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FirstCircle@lemmy.ml on 26 Jun 17:42 next collapse

It’s good to see that M$FT is tackling the important problems:

The sight of a Blue Screen of Death will also be a thing of the past, too. Microsoft is now officially redesigning its BSOD so that it’s black and not blue.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml on 26 Jun 19:17 next collapse

Hello darkness my old friend

taco@piefed.social on 26 Jun 20:04 next collapse

At least they preserved the BSOD acronym.

brisk@aussie.zone on 26 Jun 20:44 collapse

It wasn’t even blue on Windows 10, it was the accent color.

BlueBockser@programming.dev on 28 Jun 21:24 collapse

They’re the same picture.jpg

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 26 Jun 17:50 next collapse

Yay! Do anticheat next!

JiveTurkey@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 20:34 next collapse

I couldn’t care less about this. Get anti cheat ba out of the kernel.

notthebees@reddthat.com on 26 Jun 20:51 collapse

It’s a start. After cloudflare, they have all the ammunition needed to start removing shit like.this. Anticheat would be an amazing next move.

Edit: crowdstrike. Oop

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Jun 21:40 collapse

You mean Crowdstrike? Cloudflare is a different problem.

notthebees@reddthat.com on 27 Jun 02:17 collapse

Oops. Forgot to proofread. I meant crowdstrike

digdilem@lemmy.ml on 26 Jun 20:56 next collapse

If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 28 Jun 01:49 collapse

Yeah personally I see it as Microsoft was forced to allow kernel access, and crowd strike proved why the courts shouldn’t be allowed to make a technical decision like that

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 27 Jun 02:34 next collapse

do anticheat count as antivirus? if so thats really good news.

i mean anticheat is doing very similar things to antivirus software.

pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip on 27 Jun 02:50 next collapse

Probably doesn’t count, but I bet that Anti-cheat will be next, if it works.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 27 Jun 02:54 collapse

i hope it is!

sylver_dragon@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 14:27 collapse

do anticheat count as antivirus?

No. But, from the article:

Microsoft has been speaking with game developers about how to reduce the amount of kernel usage

The CrowdStrike fiasco was finally enough for Microsoft to look at forcing drivers out of the kernel. This is absolutely a good thing and will hopefully lead to a more stable Windows.

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 27 Jun 18:16 collapse

I’m a Linux user, and while that would also be win for me, I’d be really happy for Windows users to finally stop having what amounts to a rootkit and spyware combined, to have to play games.

pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip on 27 Jun 02:49 next collapse

I imagine that a crowd of people are asking Microsoft what made this idea strike their fancy…

sylver_dragon@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 14:29 collapse

First question which popped into my mind was, “Will they force Defender out as well?”
Or, is Microsoft about to abuse it’s position to stifle competition? Again.

baatliwala@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 16:18 collapse

Tbh out of the big corpos MS has been one of the least anti-competitive in the past 10-15 years. They like to push their own services with ads within their own services yes but that’s not really anti competitive in the truest sense, every company on earth does that.

The biggest one I can think of recently is them having lower rates for Windows Server on Azure vs other clouds. Compare that with companies like Apple, Google who actively attempt to put down other services.

IMO Nadella has been pretty decent in handling that part of MS. Though I don’t really have an answer to your Defender question lol.