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WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently
Precisely nineteen months ago, Bill Gates sent out a
memo
to employees (and the press) announcing that security was Microsoft's
number-one priority.
Today, about a hundred readers have submitted the
news that Microsoft.com
went down last night.
And now, the company has
"extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com
(future updates will come from a
different domain).
All this because of some Microsoft worm that triggers at midnight. Related news:
Windows Update
says you're protected, but maybe you're not;
WU.com
briefly ran Linux, heh;
worm variant with clever "anatomical term."
are u just trolling or are you that inbred ? Not only is it not an interesting username it is not even attached to a being with greater cognitive power than a box of rocks...
u lt.a sp for quite some time now, and as we speak is still serving and was last night at 19:00 even. Not to remove any of the blame from Billy Gates and M$ but lets deal in facts not fanboy musk here please...err I forgot where I was..D'oh back to M$ bashing...
BTW windows.update.com has been redirecting to
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/defa
Our products should emphasize security right out of the box, and we must constantly refine and improve that security as threats evolve. Only dirty hippies use linux. A good example of this is the changes we made in Outlook to avoid email borne viruses. If we discover a risk that a feature could compromise someone's privacy, that problem gets solved first. If there is any way we can better protect important data and minimize downtime, we should focus on this.
I like how nine different vulnerabilities for Linux was discovered and announced two months or so ago, but people are incessently bashing Microsoft, when they released a patch to fix this bug a few weeks ago! Is it Microsoft's fault that most computer users and corporate IT staff are just too damned ignorant and/or lazy to go download and install a patch? Especially one that's made major news headlines for the past month? I'm sure on the other hand that should an exploit be made for one of the recently discovered Linux vulnerabilities, which received little to no coverage on here BTW, and infected Linux users by the droves, people would still be hailing Linux and blaming it properly on ignorant and lazy Linux admins and IT staff.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
Jesus Christ, you're an idiot. Read the fucking article (not the links, the Slashdot article). It's right there in the first line.
I'd mod you down (I have the points), but I think it'd be better to point this out to any other mods so they can mod this bozo's post to -1.
Stay with giving lube jobs to your OSS masters whie they outsource yout job to China.
3. The killer Unix programs (Apache, SSH, PostgreSQL, etc.) don't run as root either. So even if they get exploited, worms can't do much with their rights anyway.
Yes, they do. the apache parent process runs as root, sshd *always* runs as root, and so does postgresql.
Also your first doesn't apply because viruses go through something called EVOLUTION, if the primary OS were UNIX, we'd have a bunch of extremely intelligent and advanced stack smashing worms and viruses. (thank god we don't though.)
"The most brilliant up-and-coming young troll since The Turd Report!" -- Herbert S. Kershaw, The DesMoine Bargain Trader
Is that Microsoft starts writing software for the Linux platform. Thereby making Linux a big fat target for bugs, worms and viruses.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I don't think that forcing a windows machine to use IE for windows update is a bad thing really. It uses activex VERY heavily. When was the last time Microsoft put out an activex plugin for Netscape? It's been YEARS.
"Fighting the underpants gnomes since 1998!" "Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat"
"This is your butt on Microsoft. Any questions?"
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
How can I simulate teh MSBlaster-generated traffic if I don't own a working Wndws installation?
for those too lazy (and too stupid). Goatse.cx
You guys should poke the registry key that indicates the patch status for the hole you are exploting So the patches, won't work.
EVIL!
I'm stupid enough to be running WinME.
It's the newspeak for the new millennium. "Free software" means free software - with the limitations imposed by GPL - and the "multiculture of operating systems" means multiculture - as long as Microsoft software is not involved.
Thanks for clearing that up.
BOO! TERRO
Micro$oft lover. your a looser and a fagget.
At least you need a fucking license to drive a car.
Why can't computers have some similar thing?
Yeah, that line never gets old, in every single article discussion.
"Sufferin' succotash."
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Fuck Linux.
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