What about this?

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McAkins

First a word of thanks to MS for taking this bold step of
content delivery. This is a complete turn around from
former policy of MS and we appreciate it.

I have two Feature Requests:
1, Prevent accidental or intentional closure of MSAS with
a password. What is the use of a protection system that
my nine year old boy can turn off because it is a pain in
the ass? Also, are we sure malwares will not be able to
disable MSAS?

2. Like some AntiVirus software vendor does, provide a
means to wrap malicious trojan files and send it to MS
validation and analysis. This will help in quickly
creating a genuine malware signature. Else you will land
in a situation where if I don't like a software vendor
all I need do is report his system as malware in the
SpyNet, effectively preventing it being ran on millions
of users' desktops.

More grease to your elbows guys, and one more time,
thanks for this initiative.

- McAkins
 
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McAkins wrote:
| First a word of thanks to MS for taking this bold step of
| content delivery. This is a complete turn around from
| former policy of MS and we appreciate it.

We do indeed :-)


| I have two Feature Requests:
| 1, Prevent accidental or intentional closure of MSAS with
| a password. What is the use of a protection system that
| my nine year old boy can turn off because it is a pain in
| the ass? Also, are we sure malwares will not be able to
| disable MSAS?

I may be wrong, but I believe that the real-time protection runs as a
service. Hence if a trusty nine year old is running as a Restricted User or
other similar account s/he will not be able to control the state of the
service. If they are using an account that is unrestricted then to be
blunt, turning off spyware protection is the least of you worries.


| 2. Like some AntiVirus software vendor does, provide a
| means to wrap malicious trojan files and send it to MS
| validation and analysis. This will help in quickly
| creating a genuine malware signature. Else you will land
| in a situation where if I don't like a software vendor
| all I need do is report his system as malware in the
| SpyNet, effectively preventing it being ran on millions
| of users' desktops.

I'm with you on this one McAkins - the Spyware report is all good and well
but not very helpful if you can't actually send them a file! I suspect they
have not added such a feature yet as it would have to be planned rather
well to stop them being inundated with stuff that isn't spyware. Or is!


Regards,


Adam Piggott,
Proprietor,
Proactive Services (Computing)

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