Microsoft always consider security breaching of their software a main problem and patch guard is a feature introduced by windows in their up coming windows vista operating system 64 bit version. This feature restrict program access to the operating system kernel, which is also called the heart of the operating system.
Security software vendors Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. say the Patch Guard technology prevents the use of certain features in third-party tools that would make Windows safer from hackers. McAfee last week took out a full-page advertisement in London’s Financial Times newspaper and charged that Microsoft’s use of Patch Guard is anticompetitive behavior.
Microsoft, meanwhile, contends that the technology itself closes the 64-bit Windows kernel to unauthorized access.
Anyway this feature is now available to 64 bit versions only and not the normal 32 bit version available for desktop users.
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