Author Topic: And yet another 3 more IE & 1 Windoze securty bugs revealed....*yawn*  (Read 1229 times)

bwid_s_01

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I must say that each time I read of a new M$ flaw (which is becoming a daily tradition) I can't help but laugh harder and harder.

I really don't remember more than 1 or 2 days this entire summer when at least one M$ bug was not discovered. Horrible!

Microsoft just admitted to 3 more security flaws in Internet Explorer:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&ncid=738&e=10&u=/nf/20030821/tc_nf/22135

 
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Yet few organizations are likely to apply the patches because they involve desktop software, experts say.


Also most places probably just can't catch up to all the new Microsoft patches. I mean really - one is being released after another daily. First a new bug is discovered. Microshit rushes out a patch. The next day a bug in the patch is found. Now the patch must be patched. The following day a new bug is found and the cycle continues.

The one good thing I see about this besides the Microsoft humiliation is that it's a good opportunity for job growth. I think businesses will soon need to create new positions for "patchers" - employees who would just sit there all day downloading and installing patch after patch after patch. System Administrators have more important things to do.

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has linux ever had a worm or virus?
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cahult

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Originally posted by raptor:
has linux ever had a worm or virus?


I guess he/she who dares to make such a worm or virus will be flogged on the spot.  :D    :D    :D
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Lion.worm,  
OSF.8759 virus
Slapper
Scalper
Linux.Svat
BoxPoison

They do exist but in far fewer numbers, I mean, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, fewer.

I als suspect they are harder to spread. This however is no time for complacency.
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Faust

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From you know where:
 
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'The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours.'

FFS what kind of company runs Windows in that kind of critical role?  Anyone living in Ohio, I think it's time to tell your representatives that having an unsafe powerplant in your backyard is a Bad Thing.
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
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