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Microsoft Discloses Security Flaws in XP and WMPlayer
An anonymous reader writes: "Salon is running a story on Microsoft's disclosure of a number of security flaws in WinXP and Windows Media Player, versions 6.4 and 7.1. The story also states that there are 2 critical vulnerabilities in Commerce Server 2000. Will I ever get the bang for my MS buck?"
Why on earth would there be a bug in Media player that allows uncontrolled access to the system. What we have here folks is a very good example of what a horribly designed OS Windows is...
Especially XP! M$ says "Windows XP makes everything run together smoothly and makes things easier." It actually makes this sort of thing more plausible. Can anyone imagine a bug in XMMS that can make GNU/Linux unusable? Hah...
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
Send Bill to jail, I say.
Then he can *really* worry about security holes.
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Damn Microsoft all to HELL!!!
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The patches install spywre and serial number tattlers!!! plus they doom you if you have the famous chines-hack version of XP release version that everyone I know runs, when they run XP for testing.
These facts have been mentioned before... I suspect you are trolling with such a provocative standard.
BTW Macs have never had a security exploit, so a bug is not a bug, its the security bugs that are the ones people care about the most.
Well, the Micro$oft pimps are moderating today...
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