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Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel
Microsoft wants to avoid another CrowdStrike incident.
“We’ve had dozens of partners supply papers to us, some of them hundreds of pages long, on how they’d like it to be designed and what the requirements are,” explains David Weston, vice president of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, in an interview with The Verge. Microsoft has been speaking with game developers about how to reduce the amount of kernel usage, but it’s a more complicated use case as cheaters often have to purposefully tamper with their machine to disable protections and get cheating engines running. “We’ve been talking about the requirements there, and I think we’ll have more to say on that in the near future.” Riot Games told me last year that it’s willing to follow potential Windows security changes and “recede from the kernel space.”
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