The OS gives and withholds permission from applications to access "sensitive" capabilities, including making a call or web connection or accessing personal information. It will allow them to diagnose problems 'over the air', to install new...
For example, when Windows Server 2003 is installed, non-essential services will be switched off by default, unlike Windows 2000 which switches on the IIS web server software by default even if the server is just to be used as a file and print server.
The vulnerability does not affect Microsoft's most recent email software - Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 - and will not be a risk if a company using Exchange 5.5 does not have the OWA component installed, Toulouse said.
Titanium' code will execute on Windows 2000 servers and/or domain controllers with SP3 installed, and on Windows .Net Standard Server, Enterprise Server and Datacenter Server (member servers or domain controllers).
While Symbian now points to its many licensees and the handsets that are finally coming out based on its OS, Microsoft talks about a not too dissimilar 30 licensees - though many fewer actual phones - and being in mobile for the long-haul.
Where the original security application just closed possible points of entry, the new firewall will also prevent applications from contacting the internet unless given express permission to do so by the user.
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