Patches are pointless: XP still sucks

[Xeen]

quote:Security researchers have identified a new version of the Download.Ject attack that is now being used on the Internet and can compromise fully patched Windows XP machines.

Article

[Aloone_Jonez]

quote:
But machines running SP2 (Service Pack 2) for XP are not vulnerable to the new attack.

[hm_murdock]

Says quite a bit.

"New malware found for Windows. XP SP 2 is immune."

I think it's really something that they can now list a version of Windows that is immune to something.

[Xeen]

quote:Originally posted by Aloone:
But machines running SP2 (Service Pack 2) for XP are not vulnerable to the new attack.

But it's still vulnerable to other kinds of attacks.

[ August 20, 2004: Message edited by: xeen ]