Ahhhh: Dem Bugs!

[jtpenrod]

Hot on the heels of the recently discovered Passport vulnerability comes yet another account of an exploit within Internet Explorer. WHUDDA SURPRISE    :eek:  

quote:Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-008 reports that a heap overflow flaw in the Windows Script Engine for Jscript (specifically, Jscript.dll) can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on a vulnerable system if the user visits a Web page containing the malicious code or opens an HTML e-mail. Jscript, the Microsoft object-oriented version of the JavaScript (aka ECMAScript) scripting language, is an interpreted language, so it can run only in the presence of Active Server Pages, IE, or Windows Script Host. Since the Windows Script Engine is present even if IE is not in use, the use of a different Web browser offers no protection.

Applicability
The security bulletin specifically lists the following versions of Windows as potentially being vulnerable to this flaw:

    * Microsoft Windows 98
    * Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
    * Microsoft Windows Me
    * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
    * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition
    * Microsoft Windows 2000
* Microsoft Windows XP (See: Script Engine flaw endangers all Windows systems)

They do say that misfoutune always comes in three's, so what's next, I wonder.    

It's almost enough to make one feel sorry for M$.    
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[LordWiccara]

wow, im not suprised that Microsuck has another security problem.  there seems to always be a problem with the security of that pOS.

[HibbeeBoy]

Is it a bug or is it just that the whole design was crap from the get go ?

[avello500]

i think we should all just step back and give billy a break.
think about it. every other day someone is finding another one of his backdoors, and its tough making a os that only he can control and no one else.
also look at his suppliers, he never gets the good code. all he gets is what was stolen or copied from someone else.
and his programmers are all hand picked so you know they dont know dick about shit and they are forced to know a language that is so full of b$ that they might as well be trying to figure out what any politician said. then bill gives them a linux box and says"just like that but better". you know anyone who speaks there mind is instantly fired, so he is only left with a bunch of "yes men" that cant figure out what is actually going on with the damn work they are trying todo.
look at it this way, you have a car that is broken, you take it to the mechanic, the first one says " sorry, someone fucked your car up pretty well trying to fix it. might as well sell it because it will never run again." you then take it to another mechanic "he says sure i can fix it" when you get it back it is more fucked up then ever.
ya i would really feel sorry for billy, if he wasnt a fucking coke head, that acts like ever other fuckin coke head piece of shit.
i need to break something.

[suselinux]

Windows should just scrap there system and start from scratch

[jtpenrod]

quote:Windows should just scrap there system and start from scratch

There are a lot of things that MS "should" have done, starting with ditching a DOS-based op-sys and developing a true multi-user, multi-tasking OS back in 1995, which is when the old MS-DOS became obsolete. Instead, they slapped a GUI on top of it, and sold it as someting grand and glorious. Back in those days, people were lots less tech-savvy than they are now, so what did they know? They wouldn't have been able to tell a POS op-sys from a good one anyway, so why not take the easy way out and sell them a POS OS?

They couldn't just ditch Winderz now since they'd be admitting that they've been ripping everyone off for the past eight years.   :eek:  

No way they're going to do that.    
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