Andrew McLaren

"Gabriel Simmons" <GabrielSimmons@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> How is an administrator supposed to submit virus samples to Virus
> Protection
> companies without having to use third party software then?

This is somewhat apochryphal, but ... I believe the reason the password
protection feature was withdrwn in Vista was that the quality of the
password security was actually pretty poor. I don't remember which algorithm
it used, but it was easily hacked. It did not meet the security standards
Microsoft required for Vista. So, it was judged better to have no password
at all, than to create an erroneous illusion of security, by providing weak
password protection. There were some complications about adding a strong
password facility to the zip compression - I am not sure what they were,
but possibly revolving around the fact Microsoft licenses the Zip code from
a 3rd party. But that's just a guess.

Maybe it was a good decison, maybe bad. But there was a rationale behind it;
it wasn't just a "screw the customers" moment.

There are several inexpensive 3rd party apps to create password-protected
Zip files.
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Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au