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While McAfee and Symantec have been battling furiously with Microsoft over the Vista operating system, Sophos’ believes, as quoted on the website Softpedia, that Symantec and McAfee have simply been caught unprepared by Microsoft's new operating system.

Richard Jacobs, CTO of Sophos, explained, “Symantec and McAfee may be struggling with HIPS because they haven't coded their solutions with 64-bit Vista in mind. We’ve taken a different approach to HIPS, by focusing more on catching bad behavior by analyzing code before it executes. Additionally, we are building our technology by making use of supported Microsoft interfaces rather than by trying to subvert the kernel by 'hooking' calls to it. That's why we're ready for 64-bit Vista, and others aren't."

Sophos’ believes Patch Guard is a positive step for Microsoft’s security and dismiss the claim of anti-competitiveness. Their conclusion, though, is dependent on Microsoft’s commitment to deliver a similar level of kernel support of third party integration as it does to its in house security team.

Sophos also declares Vista “more secure” but by no means completely secure, thereby justifying the need for additional security measures. Richard Jacobs continued, “PatchGuard is a step in the right direction for customers, and we believe that security vendors should embrace and work with PatchGuard rather than fight it."

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