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Microsoft News Update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-for-the-whole-family dept.

Microsoft news of the past few days: Media Player 9 is the subject of a few articles, including one on its integrated digital restrictions and one on changes in its privacy options. Microsoft is releasing certain API's, and is releasing a service pack for Windows XP, under the requirements of its antitrust settlement with the Federal Gov't. On the downside, code to crash any modern Windows machine with NetBIOS enabled is now floating around the net, and there's been more publicity of the vulnerabilities in Microsoft IIS/SSL.

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  1. Oh that's very responsible of you, SlashDot by Mwongozi · · Score: 0, Troll
    Inform us of a bug in Windows, sure. Even show us some proof-of-concept code, why not?

    But to link directly to the crash-windows-in-one-easy-step binary? That's just plain irresponsible.

    "SlashDot: The Cracker's friend!"

  2. Real smart! by Quasar1999 · · Score: 2, Troll

    HMM... as if script kiddies don't have it easy enough, lets put a link to a 'crash' script on the front page of slashdot... Do the editors on slashdot ever think before they post links?

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    1. Re:Real smart! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Man are you a fucktard. Is that why Linux is still such a piece of shit? You know that RIGHT NOW you can go and kernel panic almost any Linux install by merely unplugging and plugging in a parallel port printer a couple of times? THat's real wuality for you...

  3. Re:Crash Windows by beeyp · · Score: -1, Troll
    there is code that will crash Windows???
    Clicking the Start button will suffice in crashing M$ Windows.
  4. Re:Uhm by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Then again, who am I to expect anything but biased journalism from you people..."

    Don't expect Slashdot to post anything remotely anti-Linux. They think that if they post flaws to Linux, then people won't install Linux. They don't understand that shedding light on these flaws (like the lackluster UI and the horrid learning curve) that developers will race to get them fixed. It's amazing how quick that SSH bug was fixed after it made Slashdot news along with "MS has this problem too". I know what happened:

    "Hey! Look! We have an opportunity to make MS look bad! Let's skip Star Trek tonight, get this bug fixed, and smack MS in the eye!"

  5. Re:MS02-045, patch available? by micromoog · · Score: 1, Troll

    Maybe you should use a fucking real browser.