*SHOCK* Security problems found in MS Vista!

[Whoozyerdaddy]

NO WAI!

Flaws Are Detected in Microsoft?s Vista
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24 ? Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.

On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user?s privileges on all of the company?s recent operating systems, including Vista. And over the weekend a Silicon Valley computer security firm said it had notified Microsoft that it had also found that flaw, as well as five other vulnerabilities, including one serious error in the software code underlying the company?s new Internet Explorer 7 browser.

The browser flaw is particularly troubling because it potentially means that Web users could become infected with malicious software simply by visiting a booby-trapped site. That would make it possible for an attacker to inject rogue software into the Vista-based computer, according to executives at Determina, a company based in Redwood City, Calif., that sells software intended to protect against operating system and other vulnerabilities.

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[Colt45]

:Q

 

[slpaulson]

Well that didn't take long.

 

[amol]

Well, when your OS is named after Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans, and Adware .....

 

[IGBT]

..thus my wait for VSP-II.

 

[zoiks]

heh. What a surprise.

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..thus my wait for VSP-II.

or a version like MICROSOFT.VISTA.SP2.SLIPSTREAM-Deviance.xxx

 

[archcommus]

Guess what, this happens when your OS is the most targeted, hell, almost the ONLY targeted OS on the globe. As long as they release prompt patches what is really Microsoft's wrong-doing here? Think you or any other company could do a better job? And don't say Apple because obviously their OS doesn't have to go through nearly the tests that MS's do with the constant attacks.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I've got some lawn chairs and popcorn, who's pulling up beside me for the battle of the century?

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
I've got some lawn chairs and popcorn, who's pulling up beside me for the battle of the century?

I thought that was Blu-Ray v. HD-DVD

 

[XZeroII]

So what? Every single OS out there has, and always will have, a bunch of security problems. Linux is full of security problems, OS X has been patching like mad these past few months, so why would Vista be any different?

 

[RichUK]

That's why you only purchase a Windows Operating System after the first service pack