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Windows XP SP2 Security Center Spoofing Threat |
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scupper writes "Security Watch Special: Windows XP SP2 Security Center Spoofing Threat
August 25, 2004
By Jay Munro
PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1639276,00.asp
Top Threat: Windows Security Center Spoof
Windows XP Service Pack 2 promises to raise the security bar for the sometimes beleaguered operating system. Unfortunately, one of the new features could be spoofed so that it reports misleading information about system security, or worse, lets a malicious program watch for an opportunity to do damage without being detected.
The feature is the Windows Security Center (WSC), which displays the status (Figure 1) of the key elements of your defenses: Firewall, Updates, and Antivirus. If your firewall has been disabled, or your antivirus is out of date, that news will display here. The information is stored in an internal database managed by the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) subsystem built into Windows.
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