“The brand spanking-new Windows operating system called Vista – billed as ‘the most secure version of Windows yet’ on the Microsoft Web site – has proven a pushover for Internet hackers,” The New York Daily News reports.
“Microsoft has acknowledged Vista has a flaw that could allow users to increase their access level to administrator, a problem first posted by a Russian hacker,” The Daily News reports.
“A flaw was also found in Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7 that could download viruses from a booby-trapped Web page. That flaw and five others were reported by Determina, a Silicon Valley computer security company,” The Daily News reports.
“News of the IE7 flaw and the hacker postings is a black eye for Bill Gates and Microsoft – and for the thousands of PC makers who will begin selling their computers next month with Vista,” The Daily News reports. “Vista’s big selling points, besides it supposed safety and security, are its stunning 3D graphics that many critics argue is simply an attempt – and a bad one at that – to match what Apple has had for years on the Macintosh.”
Full article here.
John Markoff reports for The New York Times, “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.”
Markoff reports, “On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a person’s privileges on all of the company’s recent operating systems, including Vista.”
“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,” Markoff reports. “The browser flaw is particularly troubling because it potentially means that Web users can 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…”
Full article here.
Let the Vista joy begin!
“For the holidays I got this brand new PC with Vista and a handful of new exploits to go with it!”
No surprise here.
MErry Vistmas!
Serioiusly boys, we love bashing MS – but how in the heck can they let this happen? Don’t they know that people will be over them like wolves on a fawn?
It’s unbelievable that they would come out of the chute this bad, after all the other experiences It’s like they LOVE being pummeled….
And Apple users love being Mistress Helga with whip in hand….
Sounds familiar doesn’t it.
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A monopoly doesn’t have to apologize or care.
Like BASF, MS didn’t make an OS that’s more secure, they made it prettier.
Spaulding: “I want a hamburger, no, a cheeseburger. I want french fries…”
Judge Smails: “YOU’LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT!”
This may sound very strange, coming from an Apple proponent, but I feel sorry for the thousands of talented designers and engineers that have spent five years of their professional lives on Vista, and then having it end up a POS before it even goes on sale to the general public.
I don’t like Doze, but I feel for the grunts in the trenches who are paying for the mistakes of their generals.
“The most secure Windows ever.”
Now there’s a confidence boosting statement! Kind of like saying, “It’s the sweetest smelling POS ever!
Happy Holidays!
“Let’s move on. Nothing to see here !”
Lt. Frank Drebin – Police Squad
Thank you Operation Wavecat
Microsoft did NOT do what Apple did — tear up an old single user model OS to build a new one based on the designed to be secure Unix model. Now they are going to pay for it — with the end to their dominance in market share. It will take a while, in the corporate market particularly, but it will happen. Game over Ballmer, you lose.
Maybe if M$ stop copying and write stuff from scratch using their own creative ideas, they just might give users a real secure OS.
……Yeah RIGHT!
From an ad:
Do you remember our contaminant, non biodegradable, nasty and olorous baby diapers?
Well…
Now they also came in pretty different colors!
MS: from. The worst of it.
We need ZuneTang to weigh in on t his, folks. I cannot commence forward with my holidays until hr does! Ehhhh, screw it……where’s the eggnog?
….obviously from my typing errors, I’VE FOUND THE EGGNOG!!
Is it just a coincidence that Vista begins with the letter “V” for “Virus?” Some clever person should think up an acronym for V.I.S.T.A.
When they wrote: “Microsoft has spent millions branding the Vista operating system as the most secure product it has produced,”
They are probably right if it blocks 10,000 virus attacks, it IS still the most secure operating system they’ve every produced. Problem is they still have 104,000 other virus attacks to worry about.
Windows Vista stand for Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojan, Adware. Bye
Umm, was ANYONE surprised by this?
Microsoft has been saying “this time, for sure!” about security ever since the first version of NT came out. Longhorn set out to fix that, but Longhorn cratered, and this XP service pack they call “vista” is nothing but cosmetics.
-jcr
LinuxGuy,
UNIX was NOT designed to be secure. It’s had the benefit of several decades of getting its security flaws beaten out of it, but let’s not pretend, shall we?
-jcr
Ohh Zuuuuuuuuune Taaaaaaaaaaang! Come out, come out wherever you aaare!
John C. Randolph said: “UNIX was NOT designed to be secure. It’s had the benefit of several decades of getting its security flaws beaten out of it, but let’s not pretend, shall we?”
That’s right John, UNIX was designed to be insecure.
Looser.
MDN Magic Word: change. Johnny, go ask mommy to change your diapers.
John C. Randolph:
“UNIX was NOT designed to be secure. It’s had the benefit of several decades of getting its security flaws beaten out of it, but let’s not pretend, shall we?”
What planet have you been living on? You really should learn something about Unix and it history before you make ignorant statements like the one above.
For you few looking for a ZT weigh in on this or any other topic posted here….
Whether you get one or not is immaterial to the holiday enjoyment you might expect to gain from ZT ‘eating his words’. Zune Tang is a mac guy (or gal). Not a windows guy (or gal). Everything he writes should be enclosed in <sarcasm> tags and read with the joy of MS bashing intended by the author.
Zune Tang, hope you had a great Christmas and a prosperous, Mac filled 2007!
mw=sense (not kidding)
As amusing as this is, i still think that the people who actually create the boob-ie trapped websites and break into your computer should be shot and killed instantly.
These people have no affliction to MAC or any other OS, they just want to do Damage, if they could find a way to screw us all, they would in a heartbeat.
My OATH: if anyone i meet in person directly proves that he/she is a computer “hacker” and has deliberatively caused damage to someone else’s computer/identity/finances then I will kick the $hit out of them.