[Infowarrior] - Possible MS Vista DDS vector

[Richard Forno]

I see this as an interesting attack vector on MS Vista:  a fellow installs a
game on Vista that, as a result of its own anti-piracy scheme, tricks
Windows into thinking it is unlicensed, and thus downgrades itself into the
new Microsoft "Reduced Functionality Mode."  (translation: Windows is
practically-unusable)

He makes an interesting point that this game apparently tampered with the
Windows OS yet the much-hyped Windows Defender (increased OS security)
functionality did not prevent it from making such changes to the OS.  That
should raise some eyebrows.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=221

-rf