Paul Cooke talks User Account Control

Posted By: Adam Bomb | May 13th @ 12:46 PM | 12,026 Views | 1 Comment
Paul Cooke is a Senior Director on the Windows 7 Product Management team, and looks after the security aspects of Windows 7.  Paul made a very quick trip to LA to present a Win7 Security session, and I managed to catch up with him in the product area to talk a little bit about the changes to UAC in the new OS.
Tags: Security, TechEd09, UAC, Windows 7
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#Nov 12th @ 5:16 AM
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http://www.spoke.com/info/p9XExo6/PaulCooke

I did some research and found Paul's online profile page. I think paul also get involved in the previous vista developement as well?

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1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-8300
"I'm not a fan of companies sensationalizing findings about Windows 7 in order to sell more of their own software," said Paul Cooke, Microsoft's director of Windows Enterprise Client Security

Cooke's blog came in response to an earlier post by Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at anti-virus software maker Sophos. Wisniewski said Sophos' tests revealed that Windows 7 is "vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses."

Sophos obtained its results by planting ten instances of known malware aion kinah onto a PC running Windows 7. Only two were caught by the OS. "Unfortunately, despite Microsoft's claims, Windows 7 disappointed just like earlier versions of Windows," Wisniewski wrote.

"Lesson learned? You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7," Wisniewski added. 

 

 

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