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BitDefender, Trend Micro and Check Point must be updated before working
with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). This is the warning coming
from Microsoft.
The ETA for this major update is three weeks. An updated list (which
includes BitDefender AV and BitDefender Internet Security, version 10;
Trend Micro Internet Security 2008; Zone Alarm Security Suite, version
7.1.078; and Jiangmin KV Antivirus, versions 10 and 2008) of
third-party software that doesn"t work with Vista SP1 showed that some
security suites will be excluded from launching once with the
installation of the service pack.
The official declaration of the company was that "For reliability
reasons, Microsoft blocks these programs from starting after you
install Windows Vista SP1".
Heather
Haas, spokeswoman for Check Point, remarked that "The current version
of [ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite], 7.1.218, is compatible with
Vista SP1 and is not blocked".
Among the non-security programs listed by Microsoft are New York Times Reader and Novell"s ZCM Agent.
Microsoft
done something similar almost three years ago when last updated Windows
XP. Then, the list was three times longer that now and it included
security tools, like Norton AntiVirus and ZoneAlarm.
Vista SP1
will be rolled out to Windows Update in mid-March as an optional
download, and then as an automatic download to most Vista machines. The
motif of the holdup is the problem with an unspecified number of
hardware device drivers.
The RTM (release to manufacturing) code
was released to beta testers, Volume Licensing customers, and
subscribers to TechNet Plus and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).
Only after a publicly made complaining of the IT professionals and
Windows developers that they had to download pirated copies of SP1,
they beneficiated the services.
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