Recently I wrote an article about Agnitum, a security software vendor known for its firewall, because of their accusations towards Microsoft. Today I recognized there was a comment of someone from Agnitum at the Sunbelt Blog, so I decided to comment it. Here is the original comment from Agnitum:
Agnitum’s technical brief about Microsoft’s approach to Kernel Patch Protection has sparked intense discussion at Alex Eckelberry’s blog.
May we participate in the debate?
The new approach to kernel patch protection is designed to block rootkits. That’s progress. However, ironically, it also prevents the installation of third-party security software from Agnitum, and Zone Labs, and McAfee, and Symantec, and other companies. This is not progress. History proves we should not rely on Microsoft and only Microsoft for operating-system security. Continue reading
