I wonder if its definition of hostile code is anything not written by
MS or not given their stamp of approval (read kickbacks).
Jeffrey
Quoting Fred A. Miller
MS: IT'S WAR ON 'HOSTILE CODE'!
The story: Microsoft has unveiled a multipronged strategy aimed at making its forthcoming Windows XP so bulletproof that just turning your PC on should be enough to safeguard it from hackers and their creations--without the need for any other special software or precautions. Dave Thompson, vice president of Windows development for Microsoft, outlined the initiative during a Tuesday afternoon keynote at the RSA Data Security Conference underway this week in San Francisco. Go to the full story by Robert Lemos. (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5080982,00.html)
The skinny: What gives? Microsoft is all of a sudden getting religion about security. Last week it announces that it will block several types of e-mail attachments in a forthcoming version of Outlook, as a way to stop the spread of viruses. Then this. Interesting.
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck