Gatekeeper and ProtectedView

I am in microsoft campus right now attending BlueHat v9 and had just finished the presentation by Tom Gallagher and David Conger. They just presented on microsoft's distributed fuzzing framework and mentioned about File Block, Gatekeeper and Protected View. Microsoft is really big on fuzzing now and has created this mammoth Distributed Fuzzing Framework (DFF) to help detect bugs, and it is producing good results. At the same time, they have now introduced File Block (which was originally introduced in office 2007), Gatekeeper and Protected View to make Microsoft Office a whole lot safer. For those of you who are aware about MOICE, Protected View is an updated version of MOICE, which is a sandbox for Microsoft Office. Protected View is cool in that it will open all documents originating from the Internet in a contained environment, allow user to read the document and decide if they can trust and edit that document. This is definitely a big step forward in subverting targetted attacks. If you are keen to find out more about Protected View, you should read more about it at Windows Seven Forum.