http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/ Engadget Comments for Sophos decries XP Mode vulnerability, Microsoft offers chill pill http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/You see, Sophos is trying to take over the Operating system market with their OS optimized for Porn usage. Its supposedly immune to viruses and made in every way to enhance your Porn experience. Just google it.]]>Aug 24th 2009 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
Its a good AV, but it's also a piece of crap in the sense, that it'll break your websites, and stop your programs from working.

I'd care about this message more if it came from Symantec... and thats saying alot.

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You're right about it being a pain in the ass...we roll it out for clients as our standard AV software now (no more Endpoint Protection, thank god), and while it's EXTREMELY customizable on a very granular level, nobody really has the time or patience to drill down to that kind of level for a simple small business roll-out. That's why it seems overly restrictive and inhibits a lot of functionality for the user. Personally, i prefer Avira and E-Set products.]]>Aug 24th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/So you don't partially work for Sophos then?]]>Aug 25th 2009 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Looks like Win7 has failed like Vista again.


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And you quote a report that cites a poor report and fails to look at what the survey actually asked. If you search for the ScriptLogic survery you should be able to figure out that it's actually 40% of businesses planning to upgrade within a calendar year. The other 60% just don't have plans to do anything that soon.

40% of businesses in a year is a HUGE success.]]>Aug 24th 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
You're wrong. Only 54 companies out of 1000 will buy Win7 this year. Read it again.
Below is the quote:

"In a survey of over 1,000 companies by Scriptlogic Corp., only 54 companies said they will implement the new OS by year end".


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Its Windows.

Ugh.

Why God, Why?]]>Aug 24th 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
]]>Aug 24th 2009 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/3 years (3.0)
2 years (3.11)
3 years (95)
3 years (98)
2 years (ME)
1 year (XP)
5 years (Vista)
3 years (7)

So, it looks like 8 should come around in 2012.]]>Aug 24th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/ 1- You can disable internet access on XP
2- Microsoft is in the works with it's own A/V software which is free for XP, Vista and Win7.]]>Aug 24th 2009 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
I would expect Microsoft to pipe all the networking back through a virtual NIC into the standard Win7 network stack. That's the touchy subject because how do you KNOW for fact that's what's happening? In a hardware virtualized environment the whole point is for the OSes NOT to know about each other... to act like two separate computers sharing the same box. How do you KNOW that virtual XP doesn't have a virus in RAM and how would you prove it? Run two copies of anti-virus?

Frankly it's sloppy PR. Sophos should be answering the question from their internal testing. At this point they should have a Win7 product in beta. So the question is a) do they not know what's going on... as an anti-virus company they should have hackers employed that can figure that out or they're not worth buying from. or b) have they identified that virtual XP has it's own stack with no way to isolate it or to install anti-virus services (but they would have said THAT if they knew it) or c) they've had Win7 betas for how long and just woke up with last week's news about hardware virtualization support in CPUS and realized Microsoft didn't spell out what they need to test for anti-virus and they don't have "any pants" or a product to put on the shelves now. ]]>Aug 24th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
Sophos do not hire hackers or virus writers. They hire people better, hacking and virus writing is easy compared to protecting a computer from such things.]]>Aug 24th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
I know the company I work for will be upgrading to win 7 but not till late next year, because the time and testing needed to push an OS upgrade. It's not something you want to take lightly.

I would also think that the economy has much to do with companies not upgrading. Many companies are just trying to stay alive and keeping all costs at a minimum.

It's not a bad OS (I've been running it on a machine here for a two weeks). It's just not the right time for many companies.]]>Aug 24th 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
Late October at that.

Of course only 54 of 1000 companies are crazy enough (or small enough) to push out a new OS to their entire business in less than two months time.

Idiot.]]>Aug 24th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
And besides he does realize for consumers, its VIRTUALIZED? What a dolt.]]>Aug 24th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I like the update, O'Neil made at the bottom of his very last retort. Sophos doesn't seem to understand the differences between having to use MEDV and a user who only manages one to 2 machines at the most. Why is he attacking MS when Apple and Linux in general use virutalization, oh GOD how did we live all these years without Sophos when its the exact same thing that has transpired for years! Should we pick up torches and pitch forks and storm to VM Ware'es door to yell at them for VMware fusion??? ]]>Aug 24th 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Oct 22nd 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 24th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/
Fact: There's a security hole that some AV company (even as small or bad as Sophos) found and it might as well serve MS to patch things up. This is nothing new, Windows has had it's flaws and will continue to have them. No need to spill some hate towards a company that says that the product (as "more secure" as it might be) is not secure enough yet.

We, as tech-savvy-people that we are, often assume that whatever we like is better and those who go against it are our sworn enemies, and that's a notion that not only hampers development but also creates a more negative, and very much unneeded after the Vista fiasco, press towards a product.

Is Windows 7 better? Maybe. It's XP mode needed? They should have ditched support for XP altogether, that is, if you need XP then you get XP, and if you need 7, then you get 7, that's it.

Is 7 a flop? It's still not in the market and of course many will voice their opinions and whatnot about it (how good/bad it is, et al) but in the end we will see when we see it. That is, give it some time and then say if it's better or not, and if it's adoption rate is better or not.

Now then, if I have to pay for a custom application overhaul so it runs in a new OS... then I have more options at hand than just Windows 7, and this is the REAL reason that will drive customers (business or not) to or away from Vista 7.]]>Aug 24th 2009 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/sophos-decries-xp-mode-vulnerability-microsoft-offers-chill-pil/Aug 25th 2009 11:43AM