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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Xeen on 20 August 2004, 18:35

Title: Patches are pointless: XP still sucks
Post by: Xeen on 20 August 2004, 18:35

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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.

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Article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20040819/tc_zd/133763)

Title: Patches are pointless: XP still sucks
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 20 August 2004, 19:21

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

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Title: Patches are pointless: XP still sucks
Post by: hm_murdock on 20 August 2004, 20:55

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.

Title: Patches are pointless: XP still sucks
Post by: Xeen on 21 August 2004, 04:01

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

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But it's still vulnerable to other (http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000924) kinds of attacks.

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