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Kaspersky deny claims made by Symantec and McAfee related to Windows Vista

Russian computer security group Kaspersky has categorically said that Windows Vista is not making it tough for software makers to develop anti-virus systems.

This comes after McAfee and Symantec both said in public statements that Microsoft is making it tough for them to access the internals of the system to make good programs.

Kaspersky Lab Chief Executive and co-founder Natalya Kaspersky said in statement: “From what we have seen of Vista we cannot tell that Microsoft is blocking access to the core. It would not make any sense for them (Microsoft) to stop working with other computer security companies because it would make their system more vulnerable to attacks.”

Microsoft itself has said that it had worked closely with computer security companies throughout the development of Vista and planned to continue to do so.